Barbara Mullen (Ellen Kirby) was playing a forty-year-old spinster, yet, she was only twenty-eight.
Finlay Currie famously played Magwitch in "Great Expectations" (1946). James Mason played this character in the 1974 TV remake.
The play was first produced in the fall of 1939 by Harold Clurman's Group Theater, in Baltimore and then in New York City, with Elia Kazan as director, before it went on to being presented in London.
Opening credits: All characters in this play are fictitious any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental.