Loosely based upon the life of sharp-tongued moll Virginia Hill and her secretive relationship with gangster Bugsy Siegel.
The title comes from Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning becomes Electra", in which a brother tells his sister: "Don't cry... the damned don't cry."
Frank Sinatra's house in Palm Springs, California was used for scenes set at Nick Prenta's desert home. Sinatra lived there from 1947 to 1957.
When Ethel Whitehead first sees Martin Blankford working in the office of her firm, there is a photo of a building behind his desk. That building is the original Phelan Building, which stood at the corner of Market Street and O'Farrell Streets in San Francisco. The photo was taken about 1890. It was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and subsequent fire. A larger and more impressive Phelan Building was constructed on the same site. It is now an historic landmark.
Joan Crawford, being about 45 when this film was made, was 17 years older than Richard Egan, 13 years older than Steve Cochran, and 10 years older than David Brian, all of whom were her love interests in the film.
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