Elvis Presley and Fess Parker ("Davy Crockett") were pursued for the role of Bo, but these casting ideas were nixed by, respectively, Colonel Tom Parker and Walt Disney. Rock Hudson also was considered for the part.

Most of Monroe's delivery of "That Old Black Magic" was captured live on camera without lip-synching - a rarity in those days.

Don Murray has said that, in a scene where Marilyn Monroe was in bed, she was actually naked under the sheets because she thought her character would have been.

Murray, a New Yorker, had never been astride a horse until the scene in which he rides one in a parade.

In a scene where Monroe was required to angrily slap Murray with the sequined tail of her costume, she did it with such vehemence that he suffered facial lacerations. Reportedly, for whatever reason, she refused to apologize.

Because Monroe felt there should not be two blondes in the film, Hope Lange's naturally fair hair was darkened to a light shade of brown.

Murray, who was in love with Lange and would shortly marry her, has a scene on the bus where he gives her a disinterested look and says to Arthur O'Connell: "She's purty, Virge, but she ain't my angel."

Executives at 20th Century Fox thought Murray was overplaying his boisterous part and wanted to fire him. Director Joshua Logan stood firm: "I don't want some 'aw shucks' cowboy in the role. I want Attila the Hun and that's what we've got."

Rodeo scenes were filmed at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix.

Upon returning to Los Angeles for further filming after working in skimpy clothing in the cold of Sun Valley, Monroe came down with bronchitis and then pneumonia and was hospitalized for 12 days.

Two years after Monroe played the role originated onstage by Kim Stanley, Stanley starred in The Goddess (1958) as a thinly disguised version of Monroe.

For some early television prints, the title of Bus Stop was changed to The Wrong Kind of Girl.

Quotes from Bus Stop: "I hear your name and I'm aflame..." -- Cherie (singing "That Old Black Magic")

"You don't have the manners they gave a monkey! I hate you and I despise you! Now give me back my tail!" - Cherie

"Wake up, Cherie! It's nine o'clock - the sun's out. No wonder you're so pale and white." - Bo

"I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me, aside from all that lovin' stuff." - Cherie

"At first I thought she wasn't good enough for you. But now know you're the one who's not good enough for her!" - Virgil

"Virge has been figuring things out. He says that seeing as you had all those other boyfriends before me, seeing as I never even had one single gal friend before you... He figures it averages out to things being proper and right." - Bo

"Well, I've been thinkin' about them other fellas, Cherie. And well, what I mean is, I like you the way you are, so what do I care how you got that way?" - Bo

"Bo! That's the sweetest, tenderest thing anyone ever said to me." -- Cherie

"I'd go anywhere in the world with you now. Anywhere at all!" - Cherie

By Roger Fristoe