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Neil Simon is said to have based the character of Willy Clark on Willie Howard who Simon met when Howard was an old man.
Walter Matthau and George Burns were playing characters in their 80s. In reality, Burns was seventy-nine, and Matthau was only fifty-five at the time of this movie's release.