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* [[Executive Meddling]]: The film was originally released in ''May'' despite being a Christmas film, due to an executive that believed people were more willing to see movies in May instead. This famously led to a marketing campaign that hid the Christmas themes of the film, including a trailer that instead of showing the film showed a fictional producer trying to figure out how to sell it while other contemporary stars raved about it. Fortunately, the film turned out to be a massive success anyway and actually ran long enough that it was still in theaters when Christmas ''actually'' rolled around.

** In the original, the judge's political advisor is [[I Love Lucy|Fred Mertz]]. The judge himself is [[His Girl Friday|Peter "Pinky" Hartwell]]. We also get appearances from a then-unknown Thelma Ritter (as a Macy's shopper) and [[Chico and The Man|Jack]] [[Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory|Albertson]] (as a postal worker).

** In addition to the established character actors, the 1994 remake had Jayne Leeves around the time ''[[Frasier]]'' was starting, and Dylan McDermott of ''[[The Practice]]''. It also has Allison Janney years before ''[[The West Wing]]''.