- Robert Redford refused to play the role of Nick.
- Sandy Dennis became pregnant during the filming of the film and had a miscarriage on the set.
- This film is the first film to use the word "Bugger" in the dialogue.
- The Bette Davis movie mentioned by Martha in the film is " Beyond The Forest " in 1949 .
- The film is the only Oscar nominated for all 13 Oscar awards since 2021, including Best Picture, Best Actor/Actress, Best Actor/Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Art Direction/Set, Best Photography, Best Music, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Effects, Best Editing, etc.
- Bette Davis , Ingrid Bergman , Rosalind Russell and Patricia Neal were the first candidates to play Martha; and the candidates to play George were James Mason , Cary Grant , Henry Fonda , Arthur Hill, Jack Lemmon and Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole .
- Connie Stevens, an American female singer, wanted to play the role of Horney.
- In order to play Martha, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor did not hesitate to gain 30 pounds.
- When Martha opened the door and saw George holding a snapdragon, George said: "Flores.Flores para los muertos." This sentence comes from " A Streetcar Named Desire ", the flower seller in the film comes to Blanche Said in front of the door: "flowers for the dead."
- Shortly after the filming started, the Oscar-winning photographer Harry Stradling Sr. was replaced by Haskell Wexler in order to beautify the image of Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor.
- The Motion Picture Association of America insisted on removing the line "screw you" in the film and replacing it with "God damn you", but the other swear words "screw" and "hump the hostess" in the film were retained.
- During the filming of the film, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor and Richard Burton rode the same red bicycles to and from Warner's studio.
- Richard Burton celebrated his 40th birthday on the set of the film.
- The film's screenwriter Edward Albee said in an interview in 2005 that Ernest Lehman, the original author and producer of the film, asked him to adapt the script for a compensation of $250,000. However, after the completion, the director Mike Nichols and the Burtons were very happy. I hated the script, and even made major revisions. In the end, only two lines of Albi were retained. Albi said that these two sentences are worth 250,000 US dollars, which is really a bargain.
- The film is the first film to have the logo of The Motion Picture Association of America "viewers under the age of 18 need to be accompanied by their parents to watch" .
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? quotes
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Nick: Who did the painting?
George: Some Greek with a moustache that Martha attacked one night.
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George: Martha, will you show her where we keep the, uh, euphemism?