This film was made three years after Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan divorced. Henry and Margaret met in 1929, married in 1931, separated in 1932, with the divorce finalizing in 1933. After appearing together in The Moon's Our Home, they discovered they still had strong feelings for each other. They even discussed remarriage and went house-hunting in Los Angeles, but never did get together in the end.
Lorna Dunn's debut.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Its initial television broadcast took place in Chicago Thursday 8 January 1959 on WBBM (Channel 2). It first aired in Omaha 3 November 1959 on KETV (Channel 7), in Johnstown 4 December 1959 on WJAC (Channel 6), in Minneapolis 2 March 1960 on WTCN (Channel 11), in San Francisco 17 April 1960 on KPIX (Channel 5), in Philadelphia 9 June 1961 on WCAU (Channel 10), in St. Louis 9 October 1962 on KMOX (Channel 4), in New York City 24 April 1963 on WCBS (Channel 2), and, finally, in Los Angeles, 12 October 1964 on KNXT (Channel 2). It was released on DVD 21 November 2014 as part of the Universal Vault Series.
In an interview with Elvis Mitchell, Bill Murray said this was one of his favorite movies and Margaret Sullavan was his favorite starlet of this era.
A song "The Moon's Our Home" was written by Friedrich Hollaender and Leo Robin but apparently not used in the picture.