This marks Jessie Mueller's second time playing a real life singer-songwriter after having previously won Tony and Grammy Awards for her performance as Carole King in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.
This movie marks producer Neil Meron's first project since the death of his longtime business partner Craig Zadan.
The scenes in Patsy's "dream house", were filmed in Patsy's real life house on Nella Drive in Goodlettsville, TN. This is what it looked like when she lived there. At the time of filming the lower half was listed on AirBNB.