Young Scots guy with a Glaswegian accent, who is Sir Rex Harrison's caddy, is a young Scottish actor called Jack Short (he didn't get a credit).
While Vivien Leigh accepted making her entrance with a child's lollipop on her skirt, she refused to fall on her backside. When director Victor Saville pointed out that actresses like Rosalind Russell, Katharine Hepburn and Joan Crawford did it all the time in their screwball comedies she replied frostily: "I am an English actress", according to Saville in 1967.
This movie received its initial USA television broadcasts in Boston Sunday 1 January 1950 on WBZ (Channel 4), in Chicago Sunday 26 February 1950 on WGN (Channel 9), in Atlanta Wednesday 29 March 1950 on WSB (Channel 8), and in New York City Sunday 16 July 1950 on WPIX (Channel 11).
United Artists, who were the US distributors for Alexander Korda's films, were horrified at the proposed casting of Rex Harrison following his stilted performance in Les Hommes ne sont pas des dieux (1936).
Victor Saville recalled: "I received a cable from their Managing Director in New York telling me that if I cast Harrison in the film they would not distribute it. The inexperienced executive side of showbusiness is none too bright at assessing who to blame and who to praise; hence the strict instructions to give Rex the heave-ho, which of course I ignored."
Sara Allgood played the same part (renamed Honoria Flanagan) in the Broadway stage production that ran from March 8 to May1937 under the title "Storm Over Patsy", Patsy being the name of the dog that triggers the plot.