Dirk Bogarde turned down the lead role after Brando bowed out.
Marilyn Monroe lobbied hard to play "Nefer," but Darryl F. Zanuck had earmarked the role for his then-mistress, Bella Darvi.
After shooting was completed, Fox made back some of the film's immense cost by selling many of the set pieces, props, and costumes to Paramount, which then employed them in an even bigger epic, Cecil B. DeMille's remake of The Ten Commandments.
At a cost of five million dollars, the film took two years to research, the designers ultimately cataloging five million items of clothing and properties for the epic.
Average Shot Length (ASL) = 13 seconds
In a publicity press book for the 20th Century Fox new CinemaScope projects for 1954, the cast of 'The Egyptian' was headed by 'Marlon Brando', 'Burt Lancaster' and 'Kirk Douglas'. Brando dropped out at the last minute.
The voices of the characters played by Mike Mazurki and Leo Gordon were dubbed by other actors for a more classical - and less American-street - quality.