Trivia

Robert Merrill broke his contract with the Metropolitan Opera in order to make this film.

At one point a waiter in a diner says, "Give that Perlberg-Seaton order special attention". William Perlberg was the film's producer and George Seaton was its writer.

Based on a 1919 play by Walter Benjamin Hare, which was one of the most produced plays in the history of American theater with 40,000 performances, as of 1952, mainly by amateur groups.

Alan Young's first starring role after three supporting roles in the 1940s.

Dinah Shore had not acted on screen since Belle of the Yukon (1944) in 1944. This would be her last major film role.