Actor Bryan Brown and actress Rachel Ward were married in 1983 about four years prior to this picture.
First cinema movie collaboration of actor Bryan Brown and actress Rachel Ward who both previously had worked on The Thorn Birds (1983) for television.
Both the Australian DVD sleeve notes and the prologue before the film on its DVD both feature the following: "NOTE: For THE UMBRELLA WOMAN'S release in the United States the title was changed to THE GOOD WIFE. In order to present the film on this DVD the best available source materials the US DVD master has been used and carries the title THE GOOD WIFE at the head of the film".
This is the only produced screenplay of playwright Peter Kenna whose name prefixes the film's title in many versions.
Screenwriter Peter Kenna passed away later in the year in which the film was first released theatrically in 1987.