The movie is a favorite of John Waters, who has cited it as an important influence on his movies starring Divine.
Isabel Sarli said Columbia Pictures distributed the Spanish version of the film, but the English version was distributed by a man who stole from them. They went to a lawyer who investigated for a while, and then one day he said he was unable to do anything because the person distributing the film was in the Mafia. Armando Bo and Sarli never received a cent.