The Happy Ending

Teresa Wright was just 11 years older than Jean Simmons, who was playing her daughter.

During the opening-credit sequence, many late-model 1960's cars are seen in flashback scenes supposedly set 15 years earlier.

The film was originally submitted to the MPAA for an R rating. After United Artists found Richard Brooks' intended cut too depressing, the studio forced to cut the film into a "moviegoer friendly" cut that was rated M. Brooks' R-rated cut was released in other countries as intended but was not released in the United States until 2016.

Features Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)