Far from being the bumbling Texas Ranger out for revenge at having been humiliated by Bonnie and Clyde, the real-life Frank Hamer was a highly respected law officer who was asked to come out of retirement to hunt down the gang. He only saw Bonnie and Clyde once—when he and other law officers gunned them down in Louisiana in May of 1934. (Jeff Guinn, Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009)

In 2008, the American Film Institute ranked Bonnie and Clyde number five on its list of the top 10 American gangster films ever made. (Source)

The real Bonnie Parker actually did write the final poem that Faye Dunaway reads in the film. But it was never sent to newspapers when the two were alive. Bonnie's mother had it published after their deaths. (Source)

Warren Beatty—who was a producer—was quite interested in having his older sister, actress Shirley MacLaine, play Bonnie. Later, when he decided to play Clyde as well as produce, he felt this casting was inappropriate. Yeah. You think? (Source)

Although she was snubbed at Academy Awards time, Dede Allen, who edited Bonnie and Clyde, has since been praised enthusiastically for her groundbreaking work on this film. In fact, in 2012, the Motion Picture Editors Guild named Bonnie and Clyde the fifth best edited film of all time. (Source)