Shelley Winters was originally considered for the role of Granny. But she came down with the shingles and they cast Stella Stevens instead.
Shot in eighteen days.
Stella Stevens said in a 1994 interview that this movie is the most fun she'd had on a film in years. She said "This film for me was like an orgasm, after all these years of just being called maybe the best thing in a bad picture."
Stella Stevens once said her appearing in this role had been predicted by a fortune teller. While in England in 1970, a fortune teller reading Tarot cards told Stella she would be remembered for a film in which she would replace another actress originally cast, but who, because of illness, would have to abandon the project. "I waited throughout the 1970s, through the '80s, and it gets to be 1994," Stella said. "Then I get a call from my agent who tells me they had cast Shelley Winters in a film, but that she developed a case of the shingles and couldn't do it. That's how I was cast in The Granny."
Stella Stevens' first leading role since the TV movie No Man's Land (1984).