Director Susan Seidelman told her actress Susan Berman to see the Federico Fellini film Nights of Cabiria (1957) before beginning to research her role.
Production on this independent film got shut down for six months after actress Susan Berman had an accident on a fire escape whilst improvising a scene. Berman was doing an improvisation with one of her fellow actors in the film which involved her character being tossed and trapped on a fire escape, and responding quite frantically to the situation. In the midst of acting and struggling with the other actor in the scene to let her back inside, Berman fell off the fire escape and broke her leg. Production shut down for six months and the crew picked up shooting again in early 1981. Filming took a total of about seven weeks.
Director Susan Seidelman's crew consisted of friends and people with whom she had worked at New York University film school when she was a student there.
The Peppermint Lounge was a popular discotheque that was open from 1958 to 1965. It was the launchpad for the global Twist craze in the early 1960's. In 1982 the Peppermint Lounge moved downtown to 100 5th Avenue, where it continued for several years before closing in 1985.
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