Dudley Moore recommended Amy Irving for the part of Maude. According to Barbra Paskin's biography "Dudley Moore: The Melancholy Clown" (2000), Moore "...was a staunch admirer of the beautiful actress with the renaissance face, and had she not been married at the time to Steven Spielberg, he would have pursued her into a romance".
This was the movie that director Blake Edwards made after he departed from production on Haut les flingues! (1984) where Edwards had been the original writer and director on the project. Edwards stepped aside (or allegedly was sacked as director) after creative differences with star Clint Eastwood.
Many of the professional wrestling characters are portrayed by real professional wrestlers. Some appear in the credits under their real names rather than their wrestling monikers.