The $70,000 that Bonnie stole in the movie would be worth $988,000 in 2019.
During the period between this film's completion and its theatrical release in the U.S., it was made available to American troops returning home from World War II. Among the venues where it was screened was the Queen Mary, which had been painted "battleship grey" and converted into a troop transport vessel.
Grandma gives Pete a cross-stitched sampler on which is stitched a line of music to a nonsense song: "Honors flysis/Income beezis/Onches nobis/Inob keesis".
The theme music for NPR's "All Things Considered" is identical to the melody of the nonsense song that is sung several times in this film.