Sheilah Graham reported that Ann Sheridan had an infection in one ear during production, and during the final shots of the film, could only be photographed from one side.
Herb Caen, who has an uncredited cameo here as a newspaper reporter, later became one of America's most successful and beloved columnists. His daily San Francisco column (featuring a mix of charming anecdotes, bits of juicy gossip and intentionally groan-inducing puns) ran for decades and eventually garnered him a special Pulitzer Prize.
The great cinematographer James Wong Howe does a "walk by" cameo in a night street shot right under the neon "Fish Grotto" sign, at 21:31.
This film was marketed by Warner Brothers with a campaign very similar to the one that made their Joan Crawford melodrama Le roman de Mildred Pierce (1945) a big hit. Although this was not as successful, it still turned a profit for the studio.
John Ridgely, who played the patient who died from a heart ailment in Dr. Talbot's office, died unexpectedly from a heart ailment in 1968.
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