[5] The story is about Arun (Ganesh), an unemployed teacher who comes across an advertisement offering a job at the Laxmi School with the proviso that only married couples should apply.

[10] Gemini Ganesan (credited as Ganesh) reprised his role from the Tamil original Missiamma (1955) since Prasad felt that "there was no one who could do a dignified comedy in Hindi".

[6] Gemini Ganesan was credited with introducing a fresh touch of a well-groomed, sophisticated South Indian youth into the Hindi film hero persona.

[16] Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle, who first sang together in Ladli (1949), had a duet in the film: "Sakhi Ri Sun Bole Papiha Us Paar".

[17] Sukhpreet Kahlon of Cinestaan wrote that "Although Kishore Kumar isn't the hero of this film, he displays his musical talent in the song "Gaana Na Aaya".

With lyrics like "O My Sita" and "Paplu Papita", the song is a nutty medley of various music forms and styles, which includes the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice".

[6] In 2012, a critic from The Hindu wrote that "If Prasad's direction is deft, camerawork by Muthuswami, aided by set designing of Shantaram, gives you alluring pictorial moments.

[7] In 2015, Deepa Gahlot in her book Take-2: 50 Films That Deserve a New Audience, wrote that "Miss Mary had a rather bold plot for 1957 – an unmarried young woman pretending to be the wife of a stranger, for the sake of a job!"

[6] In 2022, a writer from IANS wrote that "Though typecast as a tragedienne, she [Meena Kumari] could do comic roles with aplomb too as seen in films such as Miss Mary (1957), Shararat (1959) and Kohinoor (1960) but she never got much of a chance.