As the film's executive producer, Joan Crawford was heavily involved in all aspects of the production. She personally hired Lenore J. Coffee as the film's screenwriter, David Miller as director and suggested Elmer Bernstein as composer. She insisted on Charles Lang being hired as the film's cinematographer and personally cast Jack Palance and Gloria Grahame as her co-stars.
Gloria Grahame reputedly had an affair with Jack Palance during the filming of "Le masque arraché (1952)."
This film was Jack Palance's "big break," garnering him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, and helping him get cast in the following year's L'Homme des vallées perdues (1953), for which he was also an Oscar nominee.
The dictation machines in Myra's office are a pair of SoundScribers. The machines were introduced in 1945 by The SoundScriber Corporation of New Haven, Connecticut. They normally recorded on six inch soft vinyl discs with a recording time of 15 minutes. The machines were popular for twenty years until compact cassette tapes came into use in the mid-1960s. Ten years later, in 1962, Joan Crawford would appear in a print ad for the company, which also featured a partially-empty bottle of Pepsi cola (she was then on the board of directors of Pepsi). A rare example of product placement within a main advertisement.
Joan Crawford received her third and last Academy Award nomination for this film, and it was the only year she competed for the Oscar against arch-rival Bette Davis (for the tenth time) for La Star (1952). Both actresses lost to Shirley Booth for Reviens petite Sheba (1952).