How to Steal a Million

Toilets Audrey Hepburn, specifically for the film, was created by Hubert de Givenchy.

At the time of the robbery, Nicole reads a biography of Hitchcock.

The dispute in the attic of her father says: "van Gogh over a lifetime, sold only one painting". This is true, but now the van Gogh paintings are among the most expensive in the world.

During the show in the USSR pictures young, of the city of Karaganda, the Kazakh SSR was painted, to the name of the film "How to steal a million" added "Ask the Central Committee of the CPSU." This was due to the investigation of the Fur of the mafia of the Soviet Union.

The working title of the film was "How to steal a million and live happily ever after."

Jewelry Audrey Hepburn have provided trade-jewelry house Cartier.

The role of an eccentric millionaire Leland at first, it was Walter Matthau but the fee he requested, did not suit the producers. Next on the list was George C. Scott, but the first day of shooting the actor was late and was dismissed by the Director. In the end, the role went to Eli Wallach.

Kind for the Museum Kleber-Lafayette has served as an art Museum Carnavalet (Carnavalet), located in the 3rd district of Paris in the Marais district. The halls of the Museum Kleber-Lafayette was built in a soundstage in Boulogne Billancourt. $100 thousand artistic Director Alexander Post assembled a collection of fake paintings of great artists, and another for $50 million purchased for them, authentic vintage frames.

The film was nominated for the writers Guild of the USA for best Comedy script.

The shooting of the film began with scenes when the characters of Hepburn and O'toole are hiding in the Museum's storeroom, and then to steal the "Venus". For shooting these episodes took 11 days. One of Hepburn's biographers argues that performers of the main roles was giggling on the Playground and ruined take after take.