Janet Gaynor was 5 years older than her character's love interest, Robert Taylor. Binnie Barnes, who portrays Taylor's fiancée, was 8 years older.
Re-titled 'One Horse Town' (in order to avoid confusion with MGM's Small Town Girl (1953)), this film was first telecast in Los Angeles Monday 6 January 1958 on KTTV (Channel 11), in Philadelphia 26 January 1958 on WFIL (Channel 6), in San Francisco 7 March 1958 on KGO (Channel 7) and in New York City 8 December 1959 on WCBS (Channel 2).
Scenes filmed along the 17-Mile Drive in Pebble Beach, which stood in for the Coast of Maine in the Autumn; Dozens of peninsulans watched the filming, but none of the local people got jobs in front of the camera, although George Kinloch and Goldie Goldstein were put on the payroll as traffic directors; Company of 35 actors and crew stayed at the Old Hotel Del Monte in Monterey (now the Naval Postgraduate School).
Included among the American Film Institute's 2002 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 top 100 America's Greatest Love Stories movies.