Filmed between mid-December 1943 and May 17, 1944, the movie's wide release was held back until March 9, 1946, and then the picture's Manhattan opening at the Strand Theatre followed on March 15, 1946. Snipped out of the release print were several references to "ongoing" World War II, which had ended on August 14, 1945. Warner Bros. delayed the film hoping Robert Alda's next film, Rhapsody in Blue (1945), would make him a star and that would boost this picture.
Warner Bros. had considered Jane Wyman and then Faye Emerson to play Judy Jones. Originally, Dennis Morgan had been slated for the male lead, the Tommy Coles character.
The $10,000,000 inheritance would equate to about $159M in 2022.
At lunch, Popik asks Judy to call him "Cuddles". That was S. Z. Sakall's real-life nickname.
This film's earliest documented telecast took place in Tucson Sunday 23 September 1956 on KDWI (Channel 9); it first aired in Sacramento CA SUnday 14 October 1956 on KCRA (Channel 3), in San Diego CA Sunday 4 November 1956 on KFSD (Channel 10), in Portland ME Thursday 8 November 1956 on WCSH (Channel 6), in Phoenix Tuesday 18 December 1956 on KPHO (Channel 5), in Washington DC Saturday 5 January 1967 on WTTG (Channel 5), in San Francisco Saturday 12 January 1957 on KRON (Channel 4), and in Portland OR Thursday 30 January 1957 on KLOR (Channel 12).