Random Trivia For This Title: - The title song, a.k.a. {The Gnome-Mobile Song}, was written by Richard M. ShermanRichard M. Sherman and Robert B. ShermanRobert B. Sherman. They were also the songwriters of the songs in Mary Poppins, which also featured Ed WynnEd Wynn, Karen DotriceKaren Dotrice and Matthew GarberMatthew Garber.
- Many of the same special effects used for this movie were also used in Disney's earlier film Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
- Throughout his career, Walter BrennanWalter Brennan approached roles in one of two ways: with teeth or without, as he had false teeth. In The Gnome-Mobile, he had it both ways: teeth in for D.J. Mulrooney, and teeth out for Knobby the gnome.
- The set of the oversize back seat of the Rolls-Royce, along with the Rolls-Royce itself, are on display at the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners MI. The museum obtained the set due to the friendship between Walt DisneyWalt Disney and the Gilmore family.
- Ed WynnEd Wynn's final film role. He died of throat cancer almost a year before the film was released, on June 19, 1966 in Beverly Hills, California.
- Matthew GarberMatthew Garber's final film role. He died of hemorrhagic necrotising pancreatitis on June 13, 1977, at the age of 21, in Hampstead, London, England.
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