Robert E. Evans was cast in the film and it was to be his screen debut but his lung collapsed, forcing him to drop out.
The subdivision in which the new house mentioned in the movie is located is called "Canarsie Terrace". These houses are located on Rockaway Parkway near Avenue N in Canarsie, Brooklyn, NY 11236.
Many Williamsburg residents appeared in this movie such as August, Ann, Diane, Peter, Mable, Elizabeth, Rose Mary, Peggy and George Peterson, Mildred Peters and the whole Peterson family who were a show business family who were all cousins to bear trainer and showman Stanley Beebe who was under contract to both Paramount and Twentieth Century-Fox Studios.