In the novel, Pussy Galore was a lesbian which is why she gives Bond the cold-shoulder at first.

A 24 hour guard had to be placed by the Fort Knox set, so that people wouldn't attempt to steal the fake gold bars.

An interesting bit of trivia from a friend that used to work at Fort Knox; the producers of Goldfinger wanted to film the climatic end scences in the actual vault itself. Treasury Officials said no to the request due to security issues.

Gert Fröbe was chosen for the title role because of his performance of a psychically unstable murderer in the German thriller "It Happened In Broad Daylight". Broccoli and Saltzman had watched the movie and decided to get this 'big bad German' for the character.

The 3D model map Goldfinger used during his mission briefing is now on display at the real Fort Knox.

The character 'Pussy Galore' was named after Ian Fleming's pet octopus; a pet octopus also appears in 'Octopussy'.

At the beginning of the movie, Bond is in 'Miami' at the Fountainbleu Hotel, then is later in 'Kentucky' at Fort Knox and the Goldfinger estate. Despite all this, Sean Connery never filmed any scenes of "Goldfinger" in America.

The actor originally cast to appear as the thug that Bond electrocutes in the bath was unable to appear as he was arrested for burglary, and so stuntman Alf Joint stepped in. He possibly wished he hadn't when a hot coil wrapped around his leg and severely burnt him.

Connery first learned to play golf for his role in 'Goldfinger'. Apparently it has become a very dear hobby to him then, since we know him now as a passionate golf player.

"Goldfinger" was the first Bond movie to gain an Academy Award when Norman Wanstall won the award for Sound Effects in 1964 for his work on the film.

Fröbe was a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party or Nazi Party. Owing to his connection to the Nazi Party, 'Goldfinger' was banned in Israel until he was publicly thanked by a Jewish family, thus revealing that he had actually aided German Jews by hiding them from the Gestapo before 1945.

It has been said that some 75% of the world's movie-goers have seen the film "Goldfinger" at least once.

A very young Garry Marshall (future successful producer/director) has a cameo as one of the American gangsters gathered to hear about Project Grand Slam. Submitted by wizard_of_gore