Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough, on whose memoirs the film is based, worked on the script but were not credited.
Jane Withers named as front runner for role that eventually went to Gail Russell.
Although Dorothy Gish plays the mother of Cornelia Otis Skinner here, they were contemporaries. (Gish was a year older than Skinner.) They had both starred together in the 1940 Broadway revival of the play "Love for Love" by William Congreve.
Gail Russell, who played Cornelia Otis Skinner, appeared in another movie also released in 1944, 'The Uninvited'. A character in that movie, Miss Holloway, was portrayed by Cornelia Otis Skinner.
Paramount originally hired Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough to collaborate with Sheridan Gibney on the screenplay. Kimbrough recounted their Hollywood experiences in her book "We followed our hearts to Hollywood". Though little of Skinner and Kimbrough's work was retained in the final shoot script, Kimbrough was hired to act as technical adviser during the filming.