Producer Martin Mooney was a former crime reporter according to a contemporary article in The Hollywood Reporter. This was his first film for RKO.
When Vic Wright offers Steve Barnes the $50,000 donation towards his campaign in this 1946 film it is the equivalent of about $733,000 in 2022 dollars.
Martha O'Driscoll sings two songs, "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening" and "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" that were originally popularized by Frank Sinatra in another RKO film, Higher and Higher (1943).