The first film to receive 7 Academy Award nominations without receiving a Best Picture nomination.
To promote the film Joan of Arc (1948), the studio placed an eight-story-high figure of her in white plastic armor in New York City's Times Square, at a cost of $75,000.
Three people associated with the film died prematurely less than six months after its release - actor Roman Bohnen, who played Joan's uncle, director Victor Fleming, and cinematographer Joseph A. Valentine.
According to some biographies of Ingrid Bergman, Howard Hughes saved her from possible injury during a visit to the set when she fell off her horse. He caught her, but rather awkwardly, with one hand firmly on her crotch. Hughes made sure no photographs of the incident were taken (or survived).