Cassandra's fortune of three million dollars would be about $62 million dollars in 2023.
When Trowbridge Cadwalader Montrose informs Bob White that he was in his garden at one in the morning smelling the flowers, White asks him if he's sure his name isn't Ferdinand. This is presumably a reference to Munro Leaf's classic children's book "The Story of Ferdinand," published five years earlier in 1936, about a bull who prefers smelling flowers to fighting in the arena.
The title of a book in the library shown in the movie, "night life in a cemetery" by Benedict. No such book appears to exist.
Eddie's line at the end, "The Hays Office is not gonna like that long kiss", is a reference to the Hays Code, a set of guidelines for film content (1934 to 1968). The Hays Office (formed in 1922) was the film industry's attempt at self-regulation to hold off Government censorship and interference in the industry. The Hays Office Guidelines, as codified in the "Hays Code", prohibited content including profanity, obscenity, racial slurs, graphic violence, substance use, promiscuity, miscegenation and homosexuality.
The earliest documented telecast of this film occurred Monday 3 April 1944 on New York City's pioneer television station WNBT (Channel 1). Post WWII television viewers got their first look at it in New York City Wednesday 6 April 1949 on WPIX (Channel 11), in Los Angeles Sunday 24 April 1949 on KTLA (Channel 5), in Cincinnati Friday 8 July 1949 on WKRC (Channel 11), and in Detroit Friday 22 July 1949 on WXYZ (Channel 7).