Costume designer Cecil Beaton created 1,500 costumes for this movie, with the exception of the pearl white gown Audrey Hepburn wears to the Embassy Ball, an original Edwardian specimen Beaton found in an antique shop.
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The film's home-video sleeve notes declare that this film was produced "from more than 8,000,000 feet of professional newsreel and amateur footage, stills, snapshots and tape recordings."
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Hayley Mills celebrates her 17th and 20th birthdays while filming "The Chalk Garden" and during promotion for "The Trouble With Angels", April 1963 and 1966
The title has a double meaning, literal for the barren soil of the garden that prevents plant growth and which Miss Madrigal attempts to enrich. And to the barren environment in which Lauren is raised and which, again, Miss Madrigal attempts to enrich.
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Hugh Griffith was reportedly drunk through much of the production; the scene in which his horse falls on him was not planned, and many believed he was saved by virtue of his inebriated condition...
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