To make Farrah Fawcett more comfortable for her nude scene in the fountain, director 'Robert Altman' had cleared the entire stage of people, except for himself, the director of photography, and the sound recordist. To everyone's surprise, she refused to do the scene without the crowd, stating she was not at all embarrassed by her naked body. So the extras were let in, she performed the scene completely naked, and received a standing ovation from the crowd afterwards.
Richard Gere later admitted that he didn't understand the finale until preview audiences explained it to him.
The first major Hollywood feature movie to show a medically explicit scene of a baby being born.
All of the dialog in the lengthy and complicated opening tracking shot was improvised. It took 5 days to shoot.