According to statistics from the Swedish Filminstitute, the film was seen by 2.8 million visitors just in Sweden during the release year of 1961, in a country that had 7 million inhabitants.
The scenes in the Stockholm archipelago are recorded at Utterkobbarna June-July 1960.
Original working title was "Änglar finns dom pappa" (according to the swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter in 1960)
"Änglar, finns dom?" is the last film that was recorded in Sandrew's old studios at Gärdet, before the move to Filmstaden in Råsunda, Solna.
In the opening scene, Jan Froman is reading a book by the self-help author Frank Bettger.