When shooting wrapped, Liza Minnelli declared publicly (and in tears) that she would never again work with the "tyrannical" director Otto Preminger. When she was working on the film, her mother, Judy Garland, had died and Liza Minnelli suffered a period of mourning. Most critics cited this reason as the source of her highly emotional performance in the film.
Charles Schramm, who created Liza Minnelli's grotesque "scarred woman" make-up for the film, worked on her mother Judy Garland's make-up in The Wizard of Oz (1939) and also prepared Garland's face for the funeral viewing.
After Bob Dylan bowed out from writing and recording a song for the film, star Liza Minnelli asked her soon-to-be-ex husband, singer-songwriter Peter Allen, to come up with a title tune. Allen did, and Liza recorded it for A&M Records, but Otto Preminger rejected it. A&M Records shelved the track until 2008 when it became a part of a Minnelli retrospective for the label.
Kay Thompson, who plays the landlord Ms. Gregory, is star Liza Minnelli's Godmother.