Lana Turner wrote in her 1982 autobiography that during pre-production she received a studio memo of reprimand about missing many of her wardrobe appointments--even though it was Irene who was not showing up. When Turner went to studio head Louis B. Mayer to defend herself, she was told that the memo was a face-saving device for Irene, who was an alcoholic but so valuable to MGM that the studio was willing to bear with her problems and delays.
The film was a success at the box office for MGM, earning a profit of $464,000 (over $6.2M in 2016) according to studio records.
The general's car they repair is a rare 1942 Chrysler Windsor convertible coupe. The MSRP was $1,420 ($23,320 in 2016). Only 574 were made before production was halted in January 1942 due to WWII.
This movie premiered three months after Susan Peters became a paraplegic after being accidentally shot, the bullet having lodged in her spine. Peters made only one more film, The Sign of the Ram (1948). She died of health complications in 1952, aged 31.
The photograph on Capt. Sanders desk is of Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby, Director of the Women's Army Corps (WAC), during World War II.