>Margaret O'Brien's real name was Angela Maxine O'Brien, but it was popular for child stars of the time to take the name of their first credited part [Journey for Margaret (1942)] as their professional name.

>Margaret O'Brien and Dean Stockwell reunited on film in Front Row Center's Innocent Witness (1956).

>Dean Stockwell was hired by MGM in the hopes that he would be the male version of Margaret O'Brien, and Margaret admitted to having a crush on Dean During the filming of The Secret Garden.

>Yorkshire-born Brian Roper played Dickon, the neighbor boy who introduces Mary to the garden. Roper would reprise the role in a 1952 British television miniseries of The Secret Garden.

>Margaret O'Brien worked at MGM for 7 years, starting in 1942 at the age of 5. Once on set when she was six years old she asked the director 'When I cry, do you want the tears to run all the way or shall I stop halfway down?'

>Dean Stockwell worked at MGM for nine years and as an adult has said about growing up in the movies 'It's a miserable way to bring up a child, though neither my parents nor I recognized it at the time.' But, he has also said 'Acting is my business, my work. I love it, even when I'm miserable.'

>One of the most popular child stars in Hollywood history is Shirley Temple (Black) who worked for 20th Century Fox. She was the number one box office star for 4 years in a row –- 1935-1938. Shirley Temple starred in The Little Princess (1939), another popular story written by Frances Hodgson Burnett.