In 1973, during an interview on the The Dick Cavett Show (1968), Cavett asked Katharine Hepburn if she was sorry she had never acted with Sir Laurence Olivier. With a smile and a laugh, Hepburn replied, "Well, neither of us is dead yet. Even though you may think so." Two years later, Hepburn and Olivier made this movie together.
At that time this television movie was first broadcast in 1975, it was the most expensive two-hour movie ever made for television.
Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier were born only ten days apart in 1907: Hepburn on May 12 and Olivier on May 22.
The ninth of ten movies Katharine Hepburn made with Director George Cukor, and the first since Pat and Mike (1952).