Trivia

The orphans that Stephanie (Sean Young) teaches to dance wear t-shirts. Looking closely, they say: UNDERPRIVILEGED KID, BROKEN HOME, ORPHAN, INCORRIGIBLE, WELFARE RECIPIENT and MOTHER IS A DISC JOCKEY.

The movie featured a number of cameos and guest appearances by television stars from the ABC network's soap operas. The film was produced by ABC Motion Pictures, the former feature film division of ABC TV. As a result, several actors from the ABC series General Hospital (1963) had cameos in the film including young Janine Turner and Demi Moore.

Paul Stanley of KISS filmed a cameo as a singer with a microphone stuck in his mouth but the scene was cut from the film.

One of the first spoof movies that got made after the box-office success of the plane parody Airplane! (1980).

First cinema movie directed by Garry Marshall.

Demi Moore: Uncredited, as a new intern.

Susan Lucci: In a soap cameo having been appearing in All My Children (1970).

Stuart Damon: In a soap cameo having been appearing in General Hospital (1963).

John Beradino: In a soap cameo having been appearing in General Hospital (1963).

Emily McLaughlin: In a soap cameo having been appeared in both Young Dr. Malone (1958) and General Hospital (1963).

Garry Marshall: about nine minutes into the movie, surreptitiously picking some marijuana leaves from a plant growing behind a sign that says FOR GLAUCOMA PATIENTS ONLY.