Trivia

This movie was based on the novel "The Phantom Filly" by George Agnew Chamberlain, and is a remake of 1944's Home in Indiana (1944) starring Walter Brennan, Lon McCallister, Jeanne Crain and June Haver.

The automobile Nick restores is a 1942 Ford convertible, the last model to roll off the assembly line before the shutdown of commercial production because of World War II.

(2/4/19) 62 years after this movie was released, its two stars (Pat Boone and Shirley Jones) are still alive. Both are 84 years old.

Pat Boone recorded the song "April Love" backed with "When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano". It was the number one hit for four weeks in 1957 and number two for six more weeks. On his radio show in 2024, he said it had become his theme song and was the most requested song whenever he gave a performance.

Pat Boone has said of the controversy surrounding his refusal to kiss Shirley Jones - "(The kiss) wasn't (originally) in the script. We were on the Ferris wheel at a carnival, and the director said he wanted me to kiss the leading lady. I said, 'On the mouth?' He said it was something that people wanted to see. But, since it wasn't in the script, I had not cleared it with the other Shirley - my wife, Shirley Boone. I got everyone to postpone until I could go home and talk to my wife. That night, she was already ahead of me. She said, 'I get how this works. I understand that you will be kissing other women on set. But, promise me one thing: *you won't enjoy it.*' Next morning, I came in all puckered up. But, the trade papers had already gotten word, and it was all over the place that I had balked at kissing Shirley Jones. They claimed that I did it for religious reasons, but I just wanted to stay married!" At a 50-year retrospective event, Pat told Shirley Jones that he was going to kiss her. Jack Cassidy, her first husband, was there in his wheelchair and gave the go ahead, as did Shirley Boone. Ms. Jones tilted up her cheek to him, but Pat said that the kiss was going to be on the lips. He reported later, "It was a tender little teenage kiss; it wasn't 'Fatal Attraction' or something."