Nominated for 3 Emmys.
The play "Fly Away Home" (on which this film was based) opened in New York on 15 January 1935.
Ernest Haller took over as director of photography when James Wong Howe was stricken with the flu.
Because John Garfield was playing a Mexican general in Juarez (1939) when the Epstein brothers were writing the screenplay to this movie, they made his character Hispanic as a joke.
Version of
Always in My Heart (1942)
- This film is another version of the play Fly Away Home.
Featured in
The John Garfield Story (2003) (TV)