This film was made in 1947 when the House Un-American Activites Committee began its investigation of communism in Hollywood. Three of the people involved in this film, the screenwriter Ben Maddow, the actors Karen Morley and Art Smith were eventually blacklisted.
Although they were born about a year apart, Barry Sullivan (Steve) and Janis Carter (Paula) would pass away a month apart in 1994, he in June and she in July.