This was Don Ameche's final film before his death on December 6, 1993, at age 85. He completed his scenes shortly before he died.
Tina Majorino and Whoopi Goldberg costarred again, five years after this film, in "Alice in Wonderland" (1999).
The pudding jingle in the movie, which Ray Liotta and Whoopi Goldberg create when they are sitting together behind the piano, was originally composed by director Jessie Nelson herself.
The song that Molly and Corrina play on the piano is John Mason Neale's "Good King Wenceslas," an English 1853 Christmas carol that originated in Finland 300 years earlier.