Earl Hamner's two children, Scott and Carrie, are in the film as two of the children listening to the missionary lady'; he is the boy with paler hair and she is the short-dark-haired girl in a homemade hat.
Dorothy Stickney (Emily Baldwin) and Josephine Hutchinson (Mamie Baldwin) died only two days apart in real life: Stickney on June 2, 1998 and Hutchinson on June 4, 1998.
Ellen Corby (Esther Walton) and Edgar Bergen (Zeke Walton) previously played another married couple, Trina and Peter Thorkelson, in Tendresse (1948).
While all of the child actors would reprise their roles for the subsequent TV series La famille des collines (1972), of the adult actors only Ellen Corby would do so.
In the final scene where everyone is saying goodnight to each other, the only name that isn't called out (besides Esther's and Zebb's) is Jason's.