Trivia: In the famous scene when Don Lockwood is singing in the rain, apparently Gene Kelly (Don) was suffering from a fever.
Trivia: Son of Paleface was one of the few sequels to a film to be more popular than its predecessor.
Trivia: Clayton Moore, who later went on to fame as the masked heroic vigilante "The Lone Ranger," was unmasked in this film. This is one of the few films in which Moore's face is fully visible.
Trivia: Released during the height of Communist hysteria, the film is a thinly disguised indictment of McCarthyism. The cowardice of the townspeople represents the blacklisting that ruined careers and lives, particularly in Hollywood, all the while supposedly good people were afraid to do the right thing and stand up for those singled out for persecution.
Trivia: The only Tom and Jerry cartoon to be animated by one animator.
Trivia: Many of the actors in this film were related. Barry Fitzgerald and Arthur Shield were brothers. Charles and James Fitzsimons were Maureen O'Hara's real-life brothers (Fitzsimons was her real surname), and Francis Ford was director John Ford's brother. In the race scene where Maureen O'Hara is in a hay wagon, the four people with her are John Wayne's children. Patrick and Melinda in the wagon with O'Hara, Michael and Toni stand next to the wagon.
Trivia: This was the last appearance of Mammy Two-Shoes in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
Trivia: The film won five Academy Awards, and holds the record for the most wins without being nominated for Best Picture.
Trivia: During the show, there is a hair that gets caught in the projector that is removed by Poochini before continuing his performance. The joke was so realistic that many projectionists attempted to remove the hair themselves, not realising that it was part of the cartoon.
Trivia: This was the first cartoon in which Wile E. Coyote had a speaking role.
Trivia: The soup crate that the coyote uses for the "free drink of water" trap has "Harris Soup" on the side - a reference to the Warner Brothers animator Ken Harris.
Trivia: Even though John McIntire plays Robert Ryan's father in the movie, he was only two years older than Ryan.
Trivia: When Sergeant Snow thrusts his sword into a horse rustler, he yells a Wilhelm scream.
Trivia: When Lambert head-butts the wolf off a cliff towards the end of the cartoon, the wolf yells a Goofy Holler.