The film is based on a play which ran for 221 performances on Broadway in 1953-54. Burgess Meredith played Horace (Pa) and Martha Scott played Emily (Ma). Una Merkel played Aunt Jane. In the play, the story was set in Wilmington, Delaware rather than Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The minister looking at a girl's feet and saying "these feet never wore shoes before" is a strong innuendo, as if he'd said "She never had sex."
Nancy DeCarl's debut.
Diane Mountford's debut.
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