Trivia

A paranormal story allegedly involving Maurice's ghost playing chess with his friend, Patrick Leonard, is told in Exploding Woman, Secret of the Skunk Ape and the Exorcist (2019).

Like horror actor Rondo Hatton, Maurice suffered from his same health condition of acromegaly, and both died of a heart attack. They eerily looked very similar---particularly when comparing their sculpted busts---and lived only to approximately the same age, with Maurice dying at 50 and Rondo at 51.