This film was such a hit that it set an attendance record at the Paramount Theatre in New York.
Filmed in 1943 with an on-screen 1944 copyright statement, but not released until 1945.
Texas Guinan appeared in three Broadway shows between 1913 and 1927, starred in about 48 silent films, and appeared in three talkies between 1927 and 1933.
Brian Donlevy turned down the Arturo de Cordova role as "too shallowly glamorous."