This film was included in the original MGM feature film package first released to television in late 1956. It was first telecast in Los Angeles Thursday 25 April 1957 on KTTV (Channel 11); it first aired in Hartford CT 4 June 1957 on WHCT (Channel 18, in Miami 15 June 1957 on WCKT (Channel 7), in Minneapolis 29 June 1957 on KMGM (Channel 9), in Seattle 24 July 1957 on KING (Channel 5), in New York City 26 August 1957 on WCBS (Channel 2), in Portland OR 31 August 1957 on KGW (Channel 8), in Norfolk VA 24 November 1957 on WTAR (Channel 3), in Honolulu 3 December 1957 on KHVH (Channel 13), in Akron 31 December 1957 on WAKR (Channel 49), and in Peoria 9 January 1958 on WTVH (Channel 19). In Philadelphia it was Initially telecast 13 May 1958 on WFIL (Channel 6), and in San Francisco 13 March 1959 on KGO (Channel 7),; it was also shown during this period on most of the other many stations who had contracted for this MGM series. It was last telecast on cable TV on Showtime in August 1985. Since that time, legal complications involving rights problems arose, and it was withdrawn from public exhibition. Presently, it's in the TCM library, but has yet to be shown, or released on DVD, because of this situation.
As originally cast, the film was to have starred not only John Barrymore but also Lionel Barrymore, the latter portraying the female protagonist's psychoanalyst/husband. That role ultimately went to Frank Morgan when, for whatever reasons, MGM's Plan B, Roland Young (as reported by Eileen Percy in the Jan. 20, 1933 issue of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) fell through.
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