Trivia

The façade later cannibalized to make up the front of the Bates home in Psycho (1960) is visible a few houses up from Cary Scott's (Jane Wyman's) block.

A major part of the movie revolves around the fact that Jane Wyman's character is supposed to be substantially older than Rock Hudson. In reality, Jane Wyman was 38 and Rock Hudson was 30 when they filmed this movie.

The haunting music used prominently in the credits and throughout the film in piano and orchestral arrangement is Franz Liszt's Consolation #3 in D flat major.

The set was re-designed to mimic an upper-middle class New England town. The film contains only one visible crane shot, when the camera scans over the fictional town of Stoningham during the opening credits. Tracking and dollying shots were used frequently for interior shots.

The house Jane Wyman's character lives in (on Universal's "Colonial Street" back lot) was built on rented Universal property by Paramount Pictures for The Desperate Hours (1955); Universal left it standing after filming, altering its appearance for All That Heaven Allows (1955). Four years later, it was altered again, for use as the house of the Cleaver family in TV's Leave It to Beaver (1957), beginning with the show's move from CBS to ABC for the 1959 season. The house continued as the Cleaver house until the end of the series in 1963, but was known at Universal as the "Paramount House," not the "Cleaver House."

The deer that appears prominently in the film's final shot was lovingly referred to by the crew as "Ketchup."