FILM 1965: THE BODYGUARD

FILM 1965: THE BODYGUARD

TRIVIA: Rachel's mansion is the same mansion as the "horse's head in the bed" mansion in The Godfather (1972).

Whitney Houston suffered a miscarriage during production and missed a couple of weeks of production recovering.

As of 2015, with over 37 million albums sold, the film had the best-selling soundtrack of all time. Saturday Night Fever (1977) places second--with nearly 10 million fewer albums sold.

Whitney Houston would give Kevin Costner singing lessons on set in exchange for acting advice.

This film was originally proposed in the mid-'70s, starring Diana Ross and Steve McQueen, but was rejected as "too controversial". The film concept was to be attempted again in the late 1970s, with Ryan O'Neal and Diana Ross cast as the leads. The project fell through after only a few months because of irreconcilable differences between O'Neal and Ross, who had been dating.

Crew driver Bill Vitagliano was killed in an on-set accident when he was crushed between two colliding scissor-lifts, during the preparation for an underground parking garage scene.

Rachel and Frank go and see Yojimbo (1961), which was released in the United States as "The Bodyguard".

This was the second-highest-grossing movie in the world for 1992, behind Aladdin (1992).

The wisecracking host at the fictional Academy Awards ceremony is comedian Robert Wuhl, who wrote jokes for Billy Crystal's Academy Awards hosting duties in 1990 and 1991.

Originally "I Will Always Love You" wasn't in the movie - the big single was "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted." When that song was used in Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (1991), Kevin Costner suggested "I Will Always Love You."