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Random Trivia For This Title: - The film reveals that, in the Lloyd-Poppy-Brooke love triangle, Lloyd ends up choosing Poppy and the two get married. Although the play shares the plot point of Poppy's pregnancy, it is never revealed who Lloyd ends up with, or even if he stays with either woman.
- Both Carol BurnettCarol Burnett (the film "Dotty") and [?] Dorothy Loudon (the original Broadway "Dotty") have also played Miss Hannigan in the musical, ANNIE. Burnett portraying the role on film, Annie (1982), and Loudon onstage.
- The play-within-the-film is entitled "Nothing On".
- Sir John GielgudJohn Gielgud was asked to play Mowbray.
- Although most of the dialogue was taken directly from the play, many words were changed to make the film more understandable for American audiences. Examples include "fortnight" being changed to "two weeks", "technical" being changed to "tech rehearsal", and "sixteen" being changed to "eighteen" (when referring to the age of consent).
- Lloyd's speech and rant to Tim, before the matinée, about the problems he's having directing Hamlet, was changed from the play. In the play, Lloyd is directing a production of Richard III, and all the characters and references reflect that. It was changed in the movie, because it was felt that Hamlet would be better-known to American audiences.
- The movie's title "Noises Off!" is a stage cue, used in plays, by a playwright, to indicate noises occurring offstage.
- Denholm ElliottDenholm Elliott's last film.
- Audrey HepburnAudrey Hepburn was offered a major role.
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