Of June Allyson and Van Johnson's five co-starring movies between 1944 and 1953 - along with their separate musical appearances in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) - only this movie, their last pairing, did not garner a contemporary New York Times review.
Based on a 1951 Broadway play that starred Janis Paige and Jackie Cooper and ran for nearly two hundred performances.
Along with Flame and the Flesh (1954), The Subterraneans (1960), and Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968), this is one of very few movies from the mid century MGM library that appear to be lost, outside of privately circulated, poorly reproduced, bootleg copies.
The film's box office failure rested on the shoulders of MGM's casting department. The studio altered the two lead roles -- created on Broadway by Janis Paige and Jackie Cooper -- to fit the screen images of Van Johnson and June Allyson, both playing drastically against type. As a result, the film version had difficulty maintaining the stage play's delicate balance of comedy and mystery, emerging with a wildly inconsistent tone.