Directed by Arthur Crabtree for Gainsborough Pictures, the film was produced by Rubeigh James Minney,[5] with cinematography from Jack Cox and screenplay by Roland Pertwee.

Maddalena was left with a dual personality, which leads her to forsake her husband and daughter and flee her Florentine home in the house of the Seven Moons as the mistress of a gypsy jewel thief.

[6] Film rights to the 1931 Margery Lawrence novel[7] were bought by Gaumont British in 1938, which wanted to turn it into a vehicle for Renée Saint-Cyr[8][9] as part of an ambitious slate for Gainsborough in 1939.

[14] The story, which is supposed to be based on a real case history, begins with a rather explicit suggestion of rape of a devout, convent-educated young woman that causes her to develop split personalities.

[23] British films had not traditionally performed well in the US but screenings to US soldiers in Britain led J Arthur Rank to feel that Madonna of the Seven Moons would do well there.