Speaking about her dozen-year movie career with film historian David Shipman in a rare 1983 interview, Deanna Durbin dismissed as "terrible" the quality of her last four vehicles: this picture, Something in the Wind (1947), Up in Central Park (1948) and For the Love of Mary (1948).
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on
January 23, 1950 with William Bendix reprising his film role.
When Wechsberg, played by William Bendix, tells Louise, played by Deanna Durbin, that the kissing scene in the movie they are watching was limited to 8 seconds, he's satirizing the practice some movie studios had at that time in the belief that the decency codes for the movie industry required time limits on kisses. Some studios adhered to a 3-second rule, others to a 10-second, and still others to a 30-second rule. The irony is that while the decency codes broadly and somewhat vaguely prohibited sexually suggestive kisses, there were no limits specified for the length of time a kiss could last.
This was the first Universal-International picture.
Adjusted for inflation, the 35 cent sandwich Louise orders would equal approximately $4 in the year 2020. The $5,000 advance that J. Conrad Nelson gives to George as an advance on his first month's salary would equal approximately $58,000.
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