"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onMay 31, 1943 with Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland reprising their film roles.

"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on September 6, 1943 with Diana Lynn reprising her film role.

"Theater Guild on the Air" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 14, 1951 with Ray Milland reprising his film role.

Billy Wilder's directorial debut in the U.S.

Actress Dorothy Comingore was originally assigned in the Pamela Hill role, before Rita Johnson took over.



It was decided to include scenes of Susan's (Ginger Rogers's) mother. Spring Byington was the first choice but was appearing in another film. Rogers suggested her real mother Lela E. Rogers, who got the role.

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

Was Richard Fiske's last movie. He was drafted shortly after the movie was completed, and was killed in 1944.

When 'Susu' is asked by the 2 train conductors to prove she's of 'Swedish stock' by saying something 'Swedish,' she replies; 'I want to be alone,' parodying the line Greta Garbo was believed to have once said, which itself was parodied in Billy Wilder's NINOTCHKA, with Greta Garbo.


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