Previously filmed as One Sunday Afternoon (1933) with Gary Cooper and Fay Wray, and as The Strawberry Blonde (1941) with James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland.
This film qualified as among the most recently produced titles in the WB feature film library that was sold to AAP for television distribution in 1956. Its earliest documented telecasts took place in Columbus Saturday 11 August 1956 on WTVN (Channel 6), in Tucson Tuesday 14 August 1956 on KDWI (Channel 9), in Miami Saturday 8 September 1956 on WTVJ (Channel 4), and in Los Angeles Sunday 23 September 1956 on KTLA (Channel 5); it first aired in Salt Lake City Friday 5 October 1956 on KUTV (Channel 2), in Phoenix Monday 15 October 1956 on KVAR (Channel 12), in Indianapolis Thursday 8 November 1956 on WTTV (Channel 10), in Sacramento CA Sunday 11 November 1956 on KCRA (Channel 3), in San Francisco Thursday 22 November 1956 on KRON (Channel 4), in Cincinnati Saturday 1 December 1956 on WKRC (Channel 12) and in both Portland OR and Spokane WA Saturday 29 December 1956 on KOIN (Channel 6) and on KREM (Channel 2). At this time, color broadcasting was in its infancy, limited to only a small number of high rated programs, primarily on NBC and NBC affiliated stations, so these film showings were still in B&W. Most viewers were not offered the opportunity to see these films in their original Technicolor until several years later.
Adapted from a Broadway play "One Sunday Afternoon" that originally opened Feb. 15, 1933 at the Little Theatre in New York and ran for 322 performances.
Dennis Morgan reprised his film role on the NBC radio show "The Screen Guild Theater" on June 9, 1949. June Haver played his wife on the 30 minute program. On September 4, 1950 Morgan again played his film role in the CBS 60 minute "Lux Radio Theatre" version opposite Patricia Neal and Ruth Roman.
Don DeFore and Janis Paige played bickering spouses in Romance on the High Seas (1948), also released in 1948.
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