Elizabeth Taylor was suffering greatly with her physically-abusive marriage to Conrad Hilton Jr. during filming. He was under the influence of drugs and alcohol when he beat her to the ground while she was pregnant and kicked her in the stomach, provoking a miscarriage. After that, the overall concept of this movie proved hard for Taylor, as she played a woman expecting and having a baby.
The baby's nursery is decorated with characters from The Wizard of Oz (1939), in which Billie Burke, who plays Doris Dunstan, played Glinda the Good Witch.
One of a handful of MGM productions of the 1950-51 period whose original copyrights were never renewed and are now apparently in Public Domain. For this reason, this title is now offered, often in very inferior copies, at bargain prices, by numerous VHS and DVD distributors who do not normally handle copyrighted or MGM material.
Joan Bennett and Elizabeth Taylor, who played mother and daughter in this movie--both played youngest sister Amy, in "Little Women"; Bennett in the 1933 version, and Taylor in the 1949 version.
Helped pioneer the modern notion of movie sequels, reuniting most of the principal cast of Father of the Bride (1950) and picking up the plot from where that movie had ended.