Six uncredited actors in this film played regular or semi-regular roles on TV's Leave It to Beaver (1957): Richard Deacon (played Fred Rutherford), Pamela Baird (Mary Ellen Rogers), Cindy Carol (Alma Hanson), Stanley Fafara (Whitey Whitney), Tiger Fafara (Tooey Brown), and Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskell).
Robert Stack plays a character that is a much younger former grade school student of/than teacher Miss Dove portrayed by Jennifer Jones, despite the fact that Stack and Jones are born in the same year.
First shown on television during the first season of the NBC series Saturday Night at the Movies, the first network series showing movies in prime time.
Robert Stack and Jerry Paris would appear together in The Untouchables (1959) from 1959-60. Paris and Richard Deacon would appear together in The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961) from 1961-66.
A picture of President Dwight D. Eisenhower hangs in Miss Dove's classroom on the day she becomes ill. When Maurice Levine first comes to class, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's picture is on the wall of the classroom.