Dany Cintra's debut.
Final film of Claudette Donald.
Danik Patisson's debut.
Older brother Marc Allegret had directed a version of the same story in the 1930s.
Max Ophuls was the original director but three weeks before shooting began Ferdinand gave the producer an ultimatum, "It's him or me." Ophuls was replaced. All that remains of the Ophuls/Jacques Natanson script is 100 pages donated to the Institut Lumière in Lyons.