At the film's climax, when Hazel asks Deanie if she still loves Bud, it can be seen (to the right of the frame) that Deanie is wearing her hat. However, when it cuts immediately to a closeup of Deanie, she is not wearing the hat.
Although it is accepted as fact that many Wall Street investors jumped to their deaths after the crash of 1929, it is a myth (though the suicide rate throughout the country did steadily increase during the years between 1929 and 1932). The crash of 1929 was the beginning of the ten-year period known as the Great Depression.
When Deanie returns home from the mental institution, her mother asks her about the man whom Deanie has met there. "He's not a New Dealer, is he?", she asks.
The scene takes place in 1931. The term "New Deal" first was used as an economic and political slogan in 1932, when Stuart Chase's book, A New Deal, was published and Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a "new deal" for the American people in his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention.
The scene takes place in 1931. The term "New Deal" first was used as an economic and political slogan in 1932, when Stuart Chase's book, A New Deal, was published and Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a "new deal" for the American people in his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention.
During the bathtub scene, there is chunk of dry ice providing the "steam".
In a closeup when Wilma Dean and Bud are kissing and talking outside Wilma Dean's house, Wilma can be seen stepping off a box that was used so the two could be in frame.
During the locker room shower sequence, Allen 'Toots' Tuttle Gary Lockwood is taking a shower - his shorts are visible.
The brief glimpse of a building in Yale is actually CCNY (City College of New York). Modern automobiles, contemporary with the time of filming but not with the time of the story, are seen in the background.
When Wilma Dean is in the bathtub, the pinkish bra she's wearing briefly rises above the water level. (She should be naked, of course.)
In Bud's basketball game, the free throw lane is twelve feet wide. Even at the college level this width did not appear until 1957.
Although the film is set from the late 1920s to the early 1930s, the women's hairstyles are very much reflective of the 1960s.
When the camera pans across the dinner table, Iris and Herringbone footed tumblers in the iridescent finish are seen. Jeanette Glass Company did not make the iridescent finish until the 1950s. During the 1930s, only the Crystal (clear) style was available.
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