The screenplay, which was based on the unproduced play Feature for June by Eileen Tighe and Graeme Lorimer, was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Comedy.

Foreign correspondent Carey Jackson returns to New York City when his newspaper's Vienna office is closed and is offered a job on a women's magazine called Home Life.

The two head for the Brinker home in Crestville, Indiana, to prepare a feature story about eldest daughter Jeanne's wedding to Bud Mitchell for the June issue.

[citation needed] Bette Davis wanted either Dennis Morgan or Jack Carson for her co-star, but director Windust and producer Henry Blanke convinced her to accept Robert Montgomery as her leading man, arguing he had a larger fan base.

A line of dialogue delivered by Mary Wickes, referring to the refurbishment the old-fashioned Brinker home, a dowdy house crammed full of Victoriana kitsch, desperately needed, was filmed twice, once as "How can I convert this McKinley stinker into a Dewey modern?"

In addition, the two young actresses who played the Brinker sisters - Barbara Bates and Betty Lynn - were also cast in two future Bette Davis films.

[4] In his review in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther described the film as "a delightful vehicle [and] a sophisticated thing, largely dependent for its humors upon a complex of wry attitudes...[It is] also a pretty solid story of good old home-town folks, never too soggy with sentiment and just a shade satiric around the edge.

Bretaigne Windust's direction is always lively and extremely able at milking a line or situation, whether satire or antic, in filming the potent script by Ranald MacDougall.