Stella Stevens was barely 12 years older than Morgan Fairchild when she was playing her mother on the series.
The show initially did well in the ratings but was ultimately cancelled at the end of season two. According to showrunner Rita Lakin, NBC cancelled it in order to make room for a show written by the son of a network executive.
Stella Stevens considered the show her big comeback and had her face lifted between the first and second season.
Showrunner Rita Lakin hated the original novel "Flamingo Road," thinking it to be clichéd, and felt that the only way to make the show work was to make it campy.
The 1949 film adaptation was produced by Warner Bros., which acquired series producer Lorimar in 1989. The film itself was not under WB ownership at the time of either the series airing or the studio's acquisition of Lorimar. In the early 1980s, the film's copyright was held by United Artists, which around that time merged with MGM. By the time of the Lorimar/WB merger, portions of the MGM library, including the pre-1950 WB films, were acquired by Turner Entertainment, which became part of WB in 1996.
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