This was the first TV-movie produced by Columbia Pictures Television.
Shelley Winters, who appears in this thinly veiled biography of Marilyn Monroe's life, in fact lived with, and was very good friends with, Monroe for a time in the 1940s, when the pair were budding young actresses.
Stella Stevens was the first choice for the title role but turned it down as she disliked the comparisons made between herself and Monroe early in her career.
Italian censorship visa # 65533 delivered on 15-11-1974.
ABC was threatened with legal action by several interested parties related to Marilyn Monroe upon announcing plans to telecast this film.