Although it sounds fictitious, Kokomo is a real place - a mid-sized industrial city about two hour's drive North of Indianapolis. Over time, its name has come to symbolize the typical American small town.
May Robson, who plays 25-year-old Wayne Morris' would-be mother, was already past 80 at the time the film was made.
This film's earliest documented USA telecasts took place in Tucson AZ Tuesday 18 September 1956 on KDWI (Channel 9), and in Bellingham WA Monday 24 September 1956 on KVOS (Channel 12); it first aired in Boston Thursday 18 October 1956 on WBZ (Channel 4), in Albuquerque Saturday 20 October 1956 on KOAT (Channel 7), in Indianapolis 24 November 1956 on WFBM (Channel 6), in Sacramento CA Thursday 21 March 1957 on KCRA (Channel 3), and in Miami Thursday 4 April 1957 on WTVJ (Channel 4).