According to Gaudio, he was dozing off while watching the John Payne/Rhonda Fleming/Ronald Reagan movie Tennessee's Partner when he heard Payne's character slap Fleming in the face.

After the slap, Fleming's character replied, "Big girls don't cry."

According to Bob Crewe, he was dozing off in his Manhattan home with the television on when he awoke to see Payne manhandling Fleming in Slightly Scarlet, a 1956 film noir based on a James M. Cain story.

[citation needed] Like "Sherry", the lead in "Big Girls Don't Cry" is sung mostly in falsetto.

In 2015, "Big Girls Don't Cry" by The Four Seasons was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.