Producer Max Gordon staged it on Broadway, where it debuted at the Lyceum Theatre on December 30, 1942.

The play is a comedy about three unmarried women sharing a room in an overcrowded hotel in Washington, D.C. during World War II.

The Broadway production was a hit that ran for 671 performances and closed on July 29, 1944.

The characters and cast from the Broadway production are given below:[3] Warner Bros. paid $250,000 for the right to adapt the play as a movie.

James V. Kern and Sam Hellman wrote the screenplay, which had to remove the play's implications of extramarital sex to be accepted by the censors at the Breen Office.