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** Art Carney (who played Felix on Broadway) wasn't seen as very marketable by Paramount, so Frank Sinatra, Dick Van Dyke and Tony Randall, among others, were considered for the movie role before settling on Jack Lemmon, while for the part of Oscar, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Jack Klugman were among those considered before Walter Matthau was called to reprise his role.
** For the TV version, the characters were originally to be played by Dean Martin or Art Carney as Felix and Mickey Rooney or Martin Balsam as Oscar respectively.
* [[Written in-In Infirmity]]: Klugman and Randall took on the roles again in a series of potato chip commercials, all of which had to be written around Klugman's nearly non-existent voice after his heavy smoking resulted in him losing a vocal cord. Then a reunion movie was made, by which time Klugman had regained some volume, but still spoke in an extremely raspy and wheezy voice, so Oscar is said to have recently had a throat operation.
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