Trivia

The last US TV movie for Peter Cushing.

The book Anne is reading to Helen in the opening scene is Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

When Helen Keller was in her mid-thirties, Sullivan fell ill and an emergency ensued. Keller's mother had to agree to a temporary male replacement, and so the socialist Peter Fagan, a twenty-nine year-old journalist, entered Keller's household as her private secretary - his job to finger-spell the contents of letters, articles and books onto his employer's open palm.

The pair soon fell in love and embarked on an intimate romance. Aware of the level of prejudice they faced, they got engaged in secret, filed for a marriage license and planned to elope.