One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929-49, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Its initial television broadcast took place in Los Angeles Friday 9 January 1959 on KNXT (Channel 2), followed by Omaha 5 February 1959 on KETV (Channel 7); it first aired in Asheville 27 September 1959 on WLOS (Channel 13), in Denver 30 October 1959 on KBTV (Channel 9), in Johnstown 16 November 1959 on WJAC (Channel 6), in Grand Rapids 13 December 1959 on WOOD (Channel 8), in Miami 6 April 1960 on WTVJ (Channel 4), and in Chicago 31 October 1960 on WBBM (Channel 2). It was released on DVD as a single 25 April 2011, and again 17 May 2012 as part of Turner Classic Movies' Claudette Colbert & Fred MacMurray Romantic Comedy Collection.
A portrait of bit player Marjorie Timm was created to represent Claudette Colbert's character's mother. It was decided by the production team that Timm looked more like Colbert than her real mother, Mrs. Jeanne Colbert.
Robert Young was on loan from MGM to Paramount for this production.