When Paula tells Chris that "Every morning you open up the paper, there's another body in a weed-covered lot," she is referring to the infamous Black Dahlia case that had horrified Los Angeles earlier that year.
The sculpture of Ann Sheridan was done by Pasquale Manuelli. He was employed in the art department at Warner Brothers at the time of this film. He also worked at 20th Century-Fox.
Jerome Cowan, the prosecutor in this film, soon after prosecuted the case against Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).
Although this film credits David Goodis and James Gunn for an original screenplay, many contemporary reviewers noted the story's similarities to another Warner Bros. film - The Letter (1940). W. Somerset Maugham received credit in that film, but not for this one.
The Bradbury Building, which is the location of Hannaford's office, was also used as the location of Eugene Philips's import-export business in D.O.A. (1949).