This was Olivia de Havilland's first film role in three years. She was suspended by Warner Brothers after she filed suit against the studio on August 23, 1943, and was officially fired upon winning her suit by unanimous decision on December 8, 1944. Because of this lawsuit and her reputation as a perfectionist, de Havilland was labeled "difficult" in show business, temporarily making her an undesirable choice for many producers.
Ginger Rogers wrote that Leland Hayward first offered her the role of Josephine Norris. She read the script and asked herself if she wanted to play the mother of a twenty-year-old man who is preparing to go off to war. She turned down the part and later regretted it when Olivia de Havilland won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Rogers also turned down The Snake Pit (1948), which Olivia also accepted and for which she received an Oscar nomination. Rogers wrote: "It seemed Olivia knew a good thing when she saw it. Perhaps Olivia should thank me for such poor judgment".
When the aircraft flies over the small town, a spectator declares it to be a DH, or a De Havilland. Sir Geoffrey De Havilland, the aircraft engineer, was cousin of Olivia .
The only Oscar-nominated performance by Olivia de Havilland in a movie that wasn't nominated for Best Picture. She won her first Best Actress Oscar for her role in this film.
John Lund, seen here - in his screen debut - as leading man to Olivia de Havilland, would star in four further films directed by Mitchell Leisen. As in "To Each His Own", Leisen would continue to utilize Lund as leading man for a veteran screen actress, the four subsequent films being Bride of Vengeance (1949) with Paulette Goddard, No Man of Her Own (1950) with Barbara Stanwyck, The Mating Season (1951) with Gene Tierney, and Darling, How Could You! (1951) with de Havilland's sister Joan Fontaine.