This marked the first time Barbara Stanwyck and Richard Long worked together. They became good friends more than a decade before playing mother and son in The Big Valley (1965).
Although the exact date is not given, reference is made to Halley's Comet, which appeared in April, 1910.
Director Douglas Sirk wanted to shoot this film in color to give the family scenes warmth, but the studio didn't think the extra cost was worth it as this was not a musical.
According to a contemporary story in the Los Angeles Times, Universal switched Richard Carlson from The Stand at Apache River (1953) to be the male lead in this picture.
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