Filmed on location at Fort Lee, VA,, which at the time had a Women's Army Corps (WAC) training center, and the US Army's Quartermaster School (which, as of 2018, is still there). The WACs, as a separate branch of the Army, was disbanded in 1978 and its members integrated into regular units.
The first outside production filmed at Walt Disney Studios.
When Sky tells Jo his civilian salary will be $55,000, that would equate to about $650,000 in 2024.
According to a contemporary newspaper article, First Lady Mamie Eisenhower refused to attend the film's premiere at a Washington (DC) theater because it had segregated seating.
According to the film's AFI Catalog entry, Rosalind Russell first brought this story in 1951 to the small screen on the CBS television network to gauge audience reaction before investing large sums in a feature film production.