Marks the return of Lillian Gish to MGM after a 22-year absence. The Cobweb was Lauren Bacall first film for MGM.
The movie Stevie and Sue go to see is Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954). Music from the movie can be heard as they are exiting the theater.
This film was a disaster at the box office, resulting in a loss for MGM of $1,141,000 ($12.6M in 2022) according to studio records.
In this film, Charles Boyer portrays an esteemed French psychiatrist who had come to the States to head an exclusive mental hospital in the country some twenty years earlier, but is losing his grip. Exactly two decades earlier, he had played a superficially similar role in Private Worlds (1935). There he portrays an esteemed French psychiatrist who comes to the States to head an exclusive mental hospital in the country.