Les Miserables

Trivia: During production, all of the crew members wore period costumes, just in case they accidentally got caught in a shot.

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Trivia: Anne Hathaway won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role as Fantine, even though she only had 15 minutes of screen time.

Trivia: Almost all film musicals have the singing overdubbed later, but in this movie the singing heard was actually being performed live on set. The actors all wore hidden earpieces, and a pianist played the music for them live, as well.

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Trivia: Frances Ruffelle, who played Eponine in the original London and Broadway casts of Les Miserables, makes a cameo during Lovely Ladies.

Trivia: Eponine was supposed to be in Jean Valjean's death scene, just like in the stage version. Some of it was filmed but was eventually canceled.

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Trivia: Cameron Macintosh, Claude-Michel Schoenberg and Michael Le Poer Trench made a cameo in the finale.

Factual error: In the scene where Javert commits suicide, you can see the back side of Notre Dame in the background. However the river Seine does not flow in the direction as shown in the following scenes. The river Seine flows from the east to the west in Paris, not the other way round.

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