Broderick Crawford originated the role of Lennie Small for the Broadway production of "Of Mice and Men". The Los Angeles production starred Lon Chaney Jr. in the same role. When the film version was made, the producers stayed with Chaney. Chaney and Crawford remained friends and drinking partners.
Badlands of Dakota (1941) contained three songs by Carson Robison, but their titles were not found in any contemporary source.
John Henry "Doc" Holliday (1852-1887), though trained as a dentist, became infamous for his exploits as a gambler and gunman in the old West. He was a participant, along with Wyatt Earp, in the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, AZ, and helped Luke Short during the Dodge City War of 1883. He died of tuberculosis and alcoholism in 1887.
Hollywood Reporter reported on June 24, 1941 that actress Miriam Hopkins had agreed to star in Badlands of Dakota (1941), only to state two days later that she had left the planned production, as she was unhappy with her role in the final draft of the script.
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