At the time of its release, King Vidor and Leslie Fenton were credited with its direction, although the DVD lists John Huston and George Stevens, who assisted with one of the segments, as well.

The screenplay by Laurence Stallings and Lou Breslow, based on an original story by Arch Oboler, is similar in style to that of Tales of Manhattan (1942), another anthology film made up of several vignettes linked by a single theme.

Oliver Pease has deceived his bride Martha into believing he's an inquiring reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Banner when, in fact, he is employed there as a classified ads clerk.

Jazz musicians Slim and Lank mistake the word "baby" for "babe" and reminisce about a female trumpeter they met when their tour bus broke down in a rundown California seaside resort, where they tried to fix a talent contest so the mayor's son would win.

The paper's editor, impressed by the notes Oliver made while talking to his various subjects, arrives to tell him he likes his column and plans to print it, and asks how he thought of the question in the first place.

Public polls revealed most people thought the movie had a religious theme, so after the Charles Laughton episode had been removed and replaced by one with Dorothy Lamour, nine minutes thus being trimmed from the running time, it re-opened in June and was nationally released as On Our Merry Way, accompanied by an advertising campaign that emphasized it was a comedy.

[2] This was the first joint film appearance of lifelong best friends James Stewart and Henry Fonda, although the picture seems to have been completely forgotten in the publicity for their two subsequent movies together a couple of decades later, titled Firecreek (1968) and The Cheyenne Social Club (1970).

At the time of filming, Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard were married, which may explain why they were permitted to be shown sleeping in the same bed, which was normally forbidden by the Production Code.