Based on the true story of author Dale Eunson's father who, as the eldest orphaned son, found homes for his siblings on Christmas.
Glynis Johns (Jo Eunson) and Reta Shaw (Mrs. Runyon) would play characters more friendly to each other in Mary Poppins (1964) as Mrs. Banks and one of her domestics, Mrs. Brill, respectively.
Twin brothers, Mark Easton and Paul Easton, played twin infants in the movie. They were born in Los Angeles, CA, on Wednesday, February 29, 1956.
Prologue: "This is a true story, told the way it happened, in a mid-western American village--a little more than 100 years ago."
Cameron Mitchell and Rex Thompson, who play father and son in this movie, each appeared in a Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II musical movie one year prior to this movie. Mitchell played Jigger Craigin in Carousel (1956) and Thompson played Louis Leonowens in The King and I (1956).