Gene Kelly was originally signed to direct, but exited when he failed to get Warren Beatty and then Bobby Darin to star.
If you look quickly whenever any characters drive down the "street" where Rock Hudson and Doris Day live, you may spot the "houses" from The Munsters, the Don Knotts vehicle The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, and many other Universal movies and TV shows from the 1960s.
Rock Hudson later said he had disliked the film and thought it was distasteful to make a comedy about death. He recalled, "Right from the start, I hated the script. I just didn't believe in that man for one minute. Making fun of death is difficult and dangerous. That scene where I went out and bought a plot for myself in the cemetery - to me it was completely distasteful."
This was the second of three films in which Edward Andrews appeared with Doris Day. The other two were The Thrill of It All and The Glass Bottom Boat. Andrews also had the recurring role of Today's World publisher Col. Fairburn in five episodes of The Doris Day Show.
About a month before the film was released, a brief clip, in black and white, was shown on TV's "The Beverly Hillbillies" in the episode "Jed Becomes a Movie Mogul".