Co-Stars Kevin Spacey and Russell Crowe won back-to-back Best Actor honors. Spacey for American Beauty (1999) and Crowe for Gladiator (2000).
David Strathairn plays a character named Pierce Morehouse Patchett. His initials would then be PMP, which spells "pimp", which is what Pierce Patchett was.
Curtis Hanson cast Russell Crowe after seeing his performance in Romper Stomper (1992). Studio execs were adamantly against the idea of casting two Australians (Crowe and Guy Pearce) in an American period piece. Kevin Spacey's character was loosely modeled off of Dean Martin.
Twice the project was pitched to television: first, producer David L. Wolper wanted to produce the project as a mini-series, and later, it was being developed as a weekly series by HBO.
L.A. Confidential is the third installment in author James Ellroy's "L.A. Quartet" series.
Was going to be made as a T.V. series with Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Vincennes.
In Mickey Rooney's autobiography, he makes a passing reference about The T&M Studio, a brothel where the women were film star lookalikes.
Pierce Patchett's business is based on the long-time rumor that there really was a house of prostitution in Hollywood that supplied ladies meticulously dressed and made up to resemble famous movie stars. In his memoir "Hollywood: Stars and Starlets, Tycoons and Flesh-Peddlers, Moviemakers and Moneymakers, Frauds and Geniuses, Hopefuls and Has-Beens, Great Lovers and Sex Symbols", screenwriter Garson Kanin describes a visit to a place called Mae's where the madam dressed as Mae West and presided over a cast of replicas of Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Carole Lombard, Marlene Dietrich and Ginger Rodgers, among others.
Jerry Goldsmith, who got an Academy Award nomination for this movie's score, replaced Elmer Bernstein.
The film has 80 speaking parts.
Izabella Scorupco was offered the lead female role but turned it down.
The character of Brett Chase is modeled after Jack Webb.
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