This movie, a remake, was released six years after François Truffaut's source French movie L'homme qui aimait les femmes (1977).
The only one of three movies that Burt Reynolds was to make with writer, producer, and director Blake Edwards that was completed without Edwards withdrawing. Edwards was going to direct Reynolds in Le lion sort ses griffes (1980), but left. Edwards withdrew also from Haut les flingues! (1984) after various creative differences.
First of two movies that Kim Basinger made with writer, producer, and director Blake Edwards. The second being Boire et déboires (1987).
Even though they only completed one movie together, Burt Reynolds has said that next to Hal Needham, Blake Edwards was his favorite director with whom to work.
Website "DVD Verdict" states that according to Richard Schickel's book on Clint Eastwood, "(Burt) Reynolds and (Dame Julie) Andrews had not gotten along very well during the production of L'homme à femmes (1983) and of course, Reynolds had major reservations about a reprise of previous problems (on Haut les flingues! (1984), where Edwards was the original director before leaving)".