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Actor Conrad Veidt's final film before his death from a heart attack on 3 April 1943, two months after the end of production on this picture. This was his second film with Joan Crawford, having appeared alongside her two years before in A Woman's Face (1941).
Joan Crawford always said she wished Alfred Hitchcock had directed this film, and indeed, the film contains many "Hitchcockian" touches, including mistaken identity, music as a plot cue, innocents recruited to do dangerous tasks.
This was the final film Joan Crawford made under her long-term contract with MGM, where she had been for the past eighteen years. Frustrated at being continuously offered what she considered second rate scripts, shortly after completing this, Crawford chose to buy out her studio contract (at great personal expense) and continue her career elsewhere. It was nearly two years later that she appeared in her next leading role, "Mildred Pierce" at Warner Brothers, for which she won the 1945 Academy Award as Best Actress.
Female bit players were not allowed to wear make-up in scenes that took place in Germany, as Adolf Hitler had banned it in 1933.
This marked the only time that Fred MacMurray co-starred with Joan Crawford, and was the first MGM picture in which he appeared.
"[on their wedding night, a policeman appears at the Myles's hotel room door demanding Richard's depart with him immediately] Frances Myles: This is no time for a practical joke. Const. Jones: It's no joke, ma'am. Frances Myles: It's not practical, either."
"Richard Myles: Darling, the less you know, or appear to know, the better. Frances Myles: That's what my mother told me the night I came out in Boston."
