In 1973, it was announced that a remake would be made. According to Robert Young, the setting would be updated and Dorothy McGuire and he would be playing the parts of the housekeeper and blind pianist originally played by Mildred Natwick and Herbert Marshall. The idea fell through after McGuire watched a screening of the original at Young's invitation at the actor's home. She said that the film belonged to another period and that she did not want to go backward.
May McAvoy, who appeared in the original The Enchanted Cottage (1924), attended this film's premiere, and admitted that she would have loved to have visited the set, "but I was fearful people would think I was making a bid for publicity."
The WWII canteens for visiting troops, as shown here, were the forerunner of the modern U.S.O.
The character of Violet Price in the story has long been widowed and remarried to Freddy, who is portrayed as a somewhat shallow character. Spring Byington (Violet) was 18 years older than Richard Gaines (Freddy) and looks it. Perhaps the age difference in casting was intentional to suggest that Freddy had once been a young man conveniently marrying a well-fixed older widow.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60-minute radio adaptation of the movie on September 3, 1945 with Robert Young and Dorothy McGuire reprising their roles.