This was one of only a handful of straight-up dramas in which Doris Day ever appeared, and was her first (and only) film for Warner Brothers in which she did not sing a note. She accepted this role partly for the opportunity to work with one of her childhood idols, Ginger Rogers.
Joan Crawford was asked by studio boss Jack L. Warner to play Doris Day's sister in the film. Crawford declined, saying, "Come on, Jack. No one would ever believe that I would have Doris Day for a sister!"
This is the picture show attended by characters Sonny, Charlene, Duane, and Jacy at the beginning of Larry McMurtry's novel "The Last Picture Show." It's Saturday night and Sonny is distracted making out with Charlene because he doesn't want to miss seeing Ginger Rogers in a slip.
When she heard that she would be co-starring with Ginger Rogers, Doris Day was delighted; before her success as a Big Band vocalist, Day had aspired to be a dancer, and Rogers had been one of her childhood idols. Day was equally thrilled when she met Alfred Hitchcock for the first time soon after the film's release. "I saw you in Storm Warning," the great director said, adding, "Good, very good. I hope to use you in one of my pictures." Sure enough, Day starred in Hitchcock's remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).
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