Although this was filmed in CinemaScope, for twenty years, Turner Classic Movies had repeatedly shown it only in pan/scan. This situation was finally corrected in June 2017 when it was finally aired in properly formatted LBX.
Ronald Neame felt Eleanor Parker was wrong for the part of Carolyn and consequently the actress was unhappy. Neame was fired by MGM and replaced by Vincente Minnelli although he refused to take any credit. As he was packing, Neame was very grateful for a sympathetic call he received from George Cukor, who told the director that he was fired from Gone with the Wind (1939) but was sure Neame would bounce back too.
Eleanor Parker had previously played the female lead in another filmed W. Somerset Maugham work: Of Human Bondage (1946).