Sophia Loren earned her first acting award with this movie (she picked up the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival). Many more would follow.
Sophia Loren was 23 years old during filming, only 10 years older than the actor playing her juvenile son.
Sophia Loren was 11 years older than Jimmy Baird, who plays her son, and 3 years older than Ina Balin, who plays her future step-daughter.
The work farm Sophia Loren visits every weekend by bus is the Berkshire Farm for Boys in Canaan, New York, about 50 miles north of New York City.
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