The original Broadway production of "You Can't Take It With You" by George S. Kaufman opened at the Booth Theater in New York on December 14, 1936, ran for 838 performances and won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1937.
The role of "Boris" was originally played in this production by James Coco, but by the time of taping he had been replaced by George Rose.
Elizabeth Wilson was more than a year older than Jason Robards, who played her character's father.
Jason Robards and Jack Dodson appeared together in the 1964 Broadway production of Eugene O'Neiil's HUGHIE, as well as Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983). Robards and Colleen Dewhurst appeared together in both the Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN and its television adaptation (A Moon for the Misbegotten (1975)), as well as Broadway productions of O'Neill's A LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT and AH, WILDERNESS in 1988.
Taped in performance during the production's Broadway run.