Sir James M. Barrie's original play, which is a short piece of less than an hour in length, dates from 1912 and is set in a small rural boarding-house "far from London", where a famous actress has elaborately disguised herself as a dowdy middle-aged type in order to escape from adoring admirers and her frantic celebrity lifestyle in the metropolis. As this indicates, this movie adaptation is a very free one.
First of two films in consecutive years (second was in 1954's Black Widow) in which Ginger Rogers played an aging Broadway diva.
At one point Paul Douglas, defending his idea, tells Ginger Rogers that people said the Wright Brothers' and Robert Fulton's inventions would never work. This echoes the song "They All Laughed," which Rogers sang in Shall We Dance in 1937: "They all laughed at Fulton and his steamboat....They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother when they said that man could fly."