Trivia

Two Sisters from Boston (1946) was a hit at the box office for MGM, earning a profit of $605,000 (about $8.65M in 2022) according to studio records.

(at around 1h11m) In the scene where the men gather around the phonograph to listen to the newly made recording of Olstrom singing, the dog jumps up on the table and takes part in an image that had later become iconic in art and in advertising. Intro titles of this film reference the 'turn of the century,' and in 1898 English artist Francis Barraud created a painting of a Jack Russell Terrier (named Nipper) sitting in front of a cylinder phonograph 'trumpet' and tilting his head in a quizzical way, just as the dog in the film does. The painting was entitled 'His Master's Voice,' the same words repeated by the recording technician in the scene, again alluding to the imagery. His Master's Voice (HMV) was also the name of the British record label created in 1901 by the Gramophone Co. The artwork was updated to portray the dog listening to a wind-up disc gramophone, like the one in the film, then used as the trademark of the Victor Talking Machine Company, which eventually became RCA Victor.

When Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr. (Peter Lawford) is talking with his mother, he says, "In his autumn before the winter comes man's last mad surge of youth," to which his mother replies, "What on earth are you talking about?" The audio of these two lines, as spoken, start the track "Don't Fall" on the the 1983 debut studio album "Script of the Bridge" by The Chameleons.

Patterson, Jr. goes on to say that he is quoting Sophocles, but the quote appears to be either apocryphal, mis-attributed by the screenwriters or else created by them originally. The Chameleons also used the same sample on an otherwise instrumental recording "Prisoners of the Sun."

Sammy Fain and Ralph Freed wrote additional songs that were not used in the picture: "Autumn Twilight," "Indian Holiday," "Lanterns in the Sky," "More Than Ever," and "Seattle."

Two Sisters from Boston (1946) would be the first of four June Allyson-Peter Lawford screen pairings; Good News (1947), Little Women (1949) and They Only Kill Their Masters (1972) would follow. An off screen partnership between Allyson and Lawford would also be formed. At the urging of MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer, Allyson dated Lawford (as well as Van Johnson)---but it was all a publicity gimmick to generate interest in the film. Allyson eventually married the recently divorced Dick Powell.