Not the first instance of a female star directing herself; earlier examples include Grace Cunard and Mabel Normand. It is, however, believed to be the first sound film directed by its female star.
Writer-producer Collier Young was then the husband of Joan Fontaine and had previously been married to Ida Lupino.
There are several in-jokes about Santa Claus and Kris Kringle in the film, all at the expense of co-star Edmund Gwenn, who played Kringle in the film Miracle on 34th Street (1947).
This would be the last feature film directed by Ida Lupino for more than 12 years until The Trouble with Angels (1966).