The baby's nursery is decorated with characters from The Wizard of Oz (1939). In that film, Billie Burke--who plays Doris Dunstan--played Glinda the Good Witch.
Elizabeth Taylor was suffering greatly with her physically abusive marriage to Conrad Hilton Jr.. during filming. He was was under the influence of drugs and alcohol when he beat her to the ground while she was pregnant and kicked her in the stomach, provoking a miscarriage. After that, the overall concept of this movie proved hard for Taylor, as she played a woman expecting and having a baby.
Helped pioneer the modern notion of movie sequels, reuniting most of the principal cast of Father of the Bride (1950) and picking up the plot from where that movie had ended.
Director Vincente Minnelli was in pre-production for An American in Paris (1951) at the time, and shot this movie in just twenty-two days while the sets for his lavish musical with Gene Kelly were being built.
One of a handful of MGM productions of the 1950-51 period whose original copyrights were never renewed and are now apparently in Public Domain. For this reason, this title is now offered, often in very inferior copies, at bargain prices, by numerous VHS and DVD distributors who do not normally handle copyrighted or MGM material.