Gene Lockhart (as George Winslow) portrays a man of 60 but was only 49 years old when this film was made.
Fifth of nine entries in MGM's long-running, progressively more popular and highly profitable Dr. Kildare film franchise starring Lew Ayres released from 1938 to 1940. Alongside (and sometimes double-billed with) the same studio's even more successful Mickey Rooney/Andy Hardy series, Kildare's box office returns by this point justified producing an average of two movies each year.
Mary MacLaren is in studio records/casting call lists for the role of "Crying Woman," but she did not appear or was not identifiable in the movie.
This film's initial telecast took place in Philadelphia Tuesday 26 February 1957 on WFIL (Channel 6); it first aired in Altoona PA 7 April 1957 on WFBG (Channel 10), in Norfolk VA 15 May 1957 on WTAR (Channel 3), in Minneapolis 17 May 1957 on KMGM (Channel 9), in Los Angeles 30 May 1957 on KTTV (Channel 11), in Hartford CT 30 June on WHCT (Channel 18), in Honolulu 19 June 1957 on KHVH (Channel 13), in Seattle 26 October 1957 on KING (Channel 5), in San Francisco 18 January 1958 on KGO (Channel 7), in New York City 23 June 1959 on WCBS (Channel 2), and in Chicago 16 May 1960 on WBBM (Channel 2).