In an interview in the late 1970s, director Allan Dwan talked of the censorship battle he had with the Hays Office over the wet-shirt scene, in which Annabella's erect nipples are on prominent display. "I wanted them to show," he said. His argument with the Hays Office was, "Have you ever seen a nude woman? Ever seen your wife nude? There was nothing there that wasn't positively true to life . . . you knew she was going to be sexy . . . that's why you picked her. The audience knows. This is my idea of giving it to them. All women are alike--they can go to the mirror and see that anytime." The matter was dropped, as re-shooting the scene would have cost too much because the studio would have had to rebuild the entire set. Dwan said that his nemesis, studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck, was pleased with the picture.
The de Lesseps family, the builders of the Suez Canal, sued the production because the movie said that Ferdinand de Lesseps - played by Tyrone Power - had a romance with Annabella's character. The court eventually discarded the case, considering it was not against the honor of France.
For its first release, prints were produced with added sepia tone.
Italian censorship visa # 1074 delivered on 17 August 1946.