The black coat Valerie wears to visit Marian, with its hood trimmed in white, was virtually copied for Kim Basinger in L.A. Confidential (1997).

One of the few sympathetic roles ever played by Sydney Greenstreet.

One of the first films to mention the 'New Look,' with which Christian Dior had altered all of fashion the year before. As Valerie leaves the theater, a day player is heard to say, 'She's got the New Look, it sure suits her.'

Rosalind Russell made her fame with larger-than-life performances ("Sometimes what you have to do is almost claw your work onto film," she explained in a 1965 interview) but limits her flamboyance to the performances within the performance, and not just on stage. She plays the part of the Broadway star in the public theater until the worldly, cultured Morrell breaks her out of her comfortable role with his attentions and affections.

"The movie made a bundle, but I was beginning to ask myself a lot of questions," wrote Russell in her autobiography, Life Is a Banquet. "I was trying to move from leading lady to character acting... and I wasn't getting the kind of work I wanted." Her solution was to return to Broadway for real, where she finally found the meaty roles she desired. And she didn't even have to kill anyone to make the break.

"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60-minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 10, 1949 with Rosalind Russell and Sydney Greenstreet reprising their film roles.