The last line of SOME LIKE IT HOT was originally a placeholder Billy Wilder and writer I.A.L. Diamond stuck in the script until they could think of something better, but they never did, and it became one of cinema’s most famous endings.
In Gremlins (1984), Mrs. Deagle’s stair lift launch was done entirely with practical effects.
After the crash, Polly Holliday asked to keep her slippers visible — a Christmas eve time chaos that is a nod to the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz.