The horse playing Black Beauty, a stallion called Fury, was the highest paid animal star after Lassie the dog.
Though this movie was released by Twentieth Century-Fox, the Weldon family manor home set looks remarkably like the manor in Universal Pictures "Dead Man's Eyes" (1944). An unknown fact is that at that time, movie studios and or movie producers would ask other studios if they could film on their sound stages and or back lots if they were ideal for their movie.
Male lead Richard [nm0219396/] and second female lead Evelyn Ankers were man-and-wife: they would have one onscreen reteaming in No Greater Love (1960).