Trivia

Jane Russell said in 1996 that, "Young Widow should have died with her husband".

Peg Martin's comment to her husband about a one-armed baseball player toward the end of the film was correct. Peter Gray played one season for the St. Louis Browns. He batted .333 in the minors, and .218 in the majors. He played left and center field, and he had a .958 fielding average. His glove is in the museum at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

With The Outlaw (1943) held up from general release due to censorship problems, "Young Widow" was the first time moviegoers saw Jane Russell on the screen.

According to studio records, because of production delays, re-casting of a lead and other problems, the film went $600,000 over budget and lost money for United Artists.

According to an article in the February 21, 1945 edition of The Hollywood Reporter, Ida Lupino started production in the lead role, with William Dieterle directing. Then in May 1945, the New York Times reported that filming had been suspended for eight weeks for story revisions after Lupino left the production and that Joan Fontaine was suspended by producer Hunt Stromberg when she refused to take the lead role.