This film was mildly successful at the box office, earning MGM a profit of $89,000 ($971,000 in 2022) according to studio records.
The streamlined Art Deco car Mark drives is a rare 1940 Chrysler Newport Dual Cowl Phaeton by LeBaron. Only six were made. One of the five remaining sold for over $1M at auction in 2011.
One of the young lovers on the ferry is Phyllis Kirk, who would go on to play Nora Charles to Peter Lawford's Nick Charles in The Thin Man (1957).
This film was turned into a graphic novel, Eastern Color's Movie Love #14, published April 1952.
The $500 per week salary Tom was offered would place his annual income at $26,000. This would be about nine times the median annual household income in the U.S., which was about $3,000 in 1952.
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