The film stars Jack Bailey, Jim Morgan, Fort Pearson, Melanie York, Cynthia Corley, Kay Wiley and Helen Mowery.

[1][2][3] The film is related to Queen for a Day, an American quiz show that aired on radio beginning in 1945 and on television, hosted by Bailey, from 1956–64.

Quiz show producer Jim Morgan reads letters from radio listeners to host Jack Bailey, telling their stories of the impact appearing as contestants on Queen for a Day had on their lives.

In The Gossamer World Marjorie Watkins writes to the show thanking them for sending a toy engine to their six-year-old son Pete.

Horsie tells of an elderly woman, childless and never married, who takes up nursing other peoples children in order to feel she still has a place in the world.

In September 1949 Robert Stillman, a former associate of Stanley Kramer, bought the screen rights from the Raymond B Morgan advertising company.

[5] Stillman had been looking to make an American anthology film along the lines of Trio (1950) and felt by using the quiz show as a framing device, "We found a commercial hook for a picture we didn't have to compromise with.

[21] Diabolique magazine said the third segment "was based on a story by Dorothy Parker, whose satirical point about beauty is muted in this adaptation – perhaps Lubin was too "nice" a director to do it justice.