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4 unusual facts about Trading Places


Clothespin

It is in Philadelphia across the street from the City Hall, and can be seen in the movie Trading Places.

Nanga Eboko

Eddie Murphy's character in Trading Places dons a thinly-veiled disguise as an exchange student from Cameroon named "Nanga Eboko."

Trading Places

Janet Maslin of The New York Times repeated some of Roger Ebert's sentiments stating that "Preston Sturges might have made a movie like Trading Places - if he'd had a little less inspiration and a lot more money."

The cast also includes Robert Curtis-Brown as Todd, Winthorpe's romantic rival for Penelope; James Belushi as Harvey, a party-goer on New Year's Eve; Jamie Lee Curtis' sister Kelly Curtis cameos as Penelope's friend Muffy; Frank Oz as a police officer; and Bo Diddley as a pawnbroker.


The Couch Trip

In the last few scenes of the movie, Burns gives his inmate number "7474505B" which is the same number that Jake Blues had in The Blues Brothers and Louis Winthorpe III in Trading Places.

The Million Pound Bank Note

The 1983 comedy film, Trading Places, features elements from both the short story and Twain's novel, The Prince and the Pauper


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Being Digital

Negroponte called this "trading places," but his co-presenter George Gilder at an event organized by Northern Telecom called it the "Negroponte Switch" and the name stuck.

Lost in a Good Book

She establishes a home in a moored flying boat (a Short Sunderland), after trading places with the plucky sidekick sergeant of a police procedural mystery; it is implied that this is Sergeant Mary Mary, from one of Fforde's other works, The Big Over Easy.

Negroponte switch

Negroponte called this "trading places," but his co-presenter (George Gilder), at an event organised by Northern Telecom called it the "Negroponte Switch" and that name stuck.

Steve Bloom

Bloom's second book on Africa, Trading Places - The Merchants of Nairobi, features subsistence shopkeepers in the suburbs of Nairobi, including Kibera.

Thomas O. Staggs

On November 11, 2009 the Los Angeles Times reported that Staggs and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Jay Rasulo were trading places on January 1, 2010.

Trading Places International

Trading Places International (TPI) is a corporation located in Laguna Niguel, California.