Writer-director Rudy Durand tried to get Orson Welles to play The Whale, but Welles was busy with other projects. Welles encouraged Durand to direct the movie himself, and he talked about the script on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), which helped Durand secure an investor.
Brooke Shields invited the film's crew to her house for dinner and prepared fettuccine. In a 1978 article, she revealed, "It came out like - well, remember the depression, those pictures of people lined up and getting slop from a big pot? That's what my fettuccine was like. For my next party I made chicken."
The original cut of the film ran 111 minutes. When the film opened poorly, director Rudy Durand re-cut the movie, shaving it down to 100 minutes. Both versions of the film were then subsequently released on television and home video.
"Cosmic Venus" was a custom pinball machine created for the movie. It's primary designer was Michael Sehnert with manufacturing assistance from Williams Electronics. Read more about the game at the Internet Pinball Database. Brook Shields later appeared on another pinball machine based on the 1983 movie Sahara (1983).
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