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Boris Karloff does not sing, "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" in the famous Dr. Seuss film, How The Grinch Stole Christmas. It was performed instead by Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice of Tony the Tiger. Thurl's role went completely uncredited. Boris won a Grammy for his performance.
"How the Grinch Stole Christmas" was filmed behind the original Bates Motel from "Psycho" on the Universal Studios backlot. During one tour of the backlot, Jim Carrey pranked a group of tourists by ambushing them while wearing a dress and brandishing a knife.
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There are not one but three animated Dr. Seuss films featuring The Grinch, with one being Halloween themed
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While filming The Grinch, Jim Carrey's makeup took so long to apply that he hired a CIA operative to train him to remain calm during the process.
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The first teaser for the film Where the Wild Things Are was shown during How the Grinch Stole Christmas in 2000, but the movie was delayed until 2009, making it the longest gap between a teaser's reveal and the film's release.
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Josh Ryan Evans, the actor who portrayed the child version of Jim Carrey’s titular Grinch, passed away at the age of 20 2 years after the film was released.
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While filming The Grinch, Jim Carrey's makeup was so intense that he was given the same training that CIA operatives use to learn how to endure torture (7:00)
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Jim Carrey had to have torture endurance training to make it through filming of The Grinch.
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Busta Rhymes did a song for the live-action Grinch film featuring Jim Carrey in character as the Grinch. (Several Swears and "Heineken" are censored quite poorly)
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During the filming of The Grinch, Jim Carrey received CIA training to withstand torture because the makeup felt like he "was being buried alive everyday".
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In the live action film 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas', Jim Carrey was trained by an ex CIA agent, who specialized in training agents how to endure torture.
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Busta Rhymes did a song for the live-action Grinch film with Jim Carrey rapping in character as the Grinch. (Several mild swears and "Heineken" are poorly and inexplicably censored)
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Jim Carrey suffered through claustrophobia and panic attacks while filming The Grinch due to the full body makeup.
While filming a scene for "Man on the Moon" behind the "Psycho" set, Jim Carrey dressed as Mrs. Bates and leapt out from behind the "Psycho" house with a rubber knife and jumped on a Universal Tour tram. He wanted to do it again the next year while filming "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" - source
While filming The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Jim Carrey was so uncomfortable and confined in his latex skin - suit that he consulted a former NAVY seal to learn torture - resistance techniques - source
