Shot in fifteen days.
Ann Sothern's daughter Tisha Sterling plays the younger version of Sothern's character Sheba who's seen in the prologue for this film. Cloris Leachman's daughter Dinah Englund plays Leachman's character Melba as a child in the same scene.
Will Sampson appeared in the Academy Award for Best Picture winner One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) in the same year he made this film.