The classic slapstick "Stooge" routines are kept to a minimum in this film, in part because by 1961 when this film was released, The Three Stooges' Columbia shorts were being shown on television, and Moe Howard was said to be very sensitive to parental complaints about the violence in the shorts.
Originally budgeted at $750,000, the film ended up costing $3,500,000.
Carol Heiss had won the Olympic gold for skating the year before. The film was designed as a showcase for her talents, hence the frequent interruptions in the plot for skating sequences.
This movie used the ice rink that was seen in Sonja Henie's movie Contigo me he de casar (1941). It had been kept under the floor of Fox's Sound-stage 15.