Peri Gilpin is billed as assistant make-up and hair in the closing credits.
The film's poor box office performance was attributed by director Paul Bartel as being due to a lack of big star pulling names. According to an article published in the 22nd June 1989 issue of the 'Chicago Tribune', ''...Bartel got [US] $2.5 million from EMI to make the screwball comedy 'Not for Publication', starring Nancy Allen and David Naughton, which subsequently got caught in a management shuffle and died. 'Maybe it needed stronger names,' Bartel admits.''
Director Paul Bartel said that character of "Lois Thorndyke", who was played in the film by actress Nancy Allen, was based on heroines from Frank Capra pictures as well as the character "Lois Lane" from the ''Superman'' comic books.
The production was able to stay under budget by hiring a non-union film crew in the state of Texas, USA and by using less expensive Dallas locations to stand in for New York City according to an article published in the 29th February 1984 issue of show-business trade-paper 'The Hollywood Reporter'. Writer-director Paul Bartel commented that the advantages of Dallas were "both economic and aesthetic".
The name of the tabloid newspaper in New York City was ''The Informer''. Its former name was ''The Enforcer''.