In an interview published in the New York Times on 20 December 1993, director Anthony Harvey said that during filming of this movie, Bette Davis "absolutely took a dislike to Faye Dunaway... I would line them up for a two-shot," he said, "then look through the camera, and I couldn't see Bette." Each time, Davis had inched her chair away to evade a tete-a-tete with the younger Dunaway.
This movie was filmed in Denver, Colorado. Scenes were filmed at the Denver County Court House and at a local church. The extras used in those scenes were local Denver citizens who received a box lunch but no pay.
In several interviews, a thoroughly disgusted Bette Davis stated that during filming of the opening tabernacle scenes, Faye Dunaway unprofessionally kept several thousand extras waiting in excessive heat for hours and that to relieve onset tension she got up and performed "I've Written a Letter to Daddy" to keep them entertained while waiting for diva Dunaway to exit her location trailer.
Bette Davis hated Faye Dunaway. A few years later, Dunaway would famously play another of Bette's rivals - Joan Crawford in "Mommie Dearest".