Barbara Stanwyck found that sustaining that level of emotion all week long and then going home on the weekend was a draining experience. "Five days I was handling it, starting the next day's work where I'd picked up, sustaining it all, and then I had two whole days to relax and not to worry about the character, and I tell you it was strange," said Stanwyck. "It was really hard to pump myself up on Monday morning to try to feel that desperate tension."
The enormous emerald-cut diamond engagement ring that Leona is wearing during much of the film is real and worth a fortune. It was loaned to the studio by Harry Winston Jewelers in Beverly Hills. Every night after filming had wrapped for the day, the ring was placed in the Paramount vault.
Agnes Moorehead, who created the role of Mrs. Stevenson on the radio, was offered a small role in the film. Insulted, she turned it down.
The jewel-clasped cigarette case Leona offers to Henry was Barbara Stanwyck's own. It was a birthday gift from Joan Crawford, one of her dearest friends.
Barbara Stanwyck received her fourth nomination for an Academy® Award for Best Actress for this film, but lost to Jane Wyman as a deaf-mute rape victim in Johnny Belinda (1948). Stanwyck would finally receive an Honorary Award in 1982.
Anatole Litvak: When Henry is having lunch with Sally, he asks the waiter if he knows who the gentleman is in the dark glasses at the table behind him. It's the director of the film.