A J. Arthur Rank British-made film biography of Nellie Melba, to star Deanna Durbin, and to be produced in Technicolor by Sydney Box, was briefly considered in 1947.
Patrice Munsel's sole feature film appearance.
Dorit Welles's debut.
Opera star Patrice Munsel was announced to headline this Nellie Melba biopic in January 1952. By the time the film's shoot began that August, Munsel had married ad man nm208504 and was pregnant with the first of the couple's four children: daughter Heidi-Ann Schuler who would be born May 5 1953. Munsel apparently became pregnant just before - if not during - the film's shoot: her condition mandated the shoot be rushed to completion before she started to "show", and Munsel would later recall how a laundry tub constantly sat just off-set "for me to heave into".