Features first song ("Never On Sunday") from a foreign-made movie to win an Oscar.
Melina Mercouri, Despo Diamantidou, and Tito Vanidis all appeared in the Broadway musical version of "Never on Sunday", "Illya darling", which ran for 320 performances between April 1967 through January 1968.
The movie was screened during 1960-1961 and sold 184,524 tickets. It came 3rd out of 58 movies.
About 20 minutes in, Homer says "Homer Thrace, of Middletown, Connecticut" to himself; That's the town where Jules Dassin was born.