The script was based on the script for the 1934 movie, The Richest Girl in the World, starring Miriam Hopkins.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on
January 1, 1945 with Laraine Day reprising her film role.
Screenwriters Henry and Phoebe Ephron were the parents of famed writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron.
The ship seen being launched at the beginning of the film is the S.S. Ethiopia Victory - one of over 530 Victory-class cargo ships built from 1944-46. It was made by Kaiser Shipbuilding at their Richmond, California yards, she was launched on April 20, 1944 and commissioned on July 17, 1944. Laid up after WWII, she was brought back into service in 1964 and renamed the USNS Victoria III (T-AK-281) serving as a logistics ship for nuclear ballistic missile submarines. Struck from the naval register in 1986, she was scrapped in Taiwan the next year.
Alan Marshal, for whom this was a rare first-billed starring role, was borrowed from David O. Selznick for this film. Years later, he abandoned his film career to focus on stage work. In 1961, he died of a heart attack while appearing opposite Mae West in a production of Sextette in Chicago. Miraculously, he completed his performance, and was found dead in his hotel room the following morning.