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- In the scene in which Amanda is driving Adam to work, he tells her, “Oh, you’re giving me the Bryn Mawr accent”. Bryn Mawr College was Katharine Hepburn’s alma mater, where she claimed to have gained her distinctive voice.
- Inspired by the real-life story of husband-and-wife lawyers William Dwight Whitney and Dorothy Whitney, who represented Raymond Massey and his ex-wife, Adrianne Allen, in their divorce. After the Massey divorce was finalized, the Whitneys divorced each other and married the Masseys.
- Katharine Hepburn reportedly urged director George Cukor to focus the camera on Judy Holliday during a number of their shared scenes, not only because she was a fan of the new-to-movies Holliday but because it was hoped the studios would see how terrific Holliday was and cast her as the lead in Born Yesterday (1950), the role she’d created on Broadway. It worked.
- During filming, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy stayed in separate homes, as was their custom whenever they traveled together. That let them maintain their decades-long relationship without any scandal in the press.
- The sixth of nine movies Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy did together.
- When Tom Ewell is walking to his girlfriend’s apartment at the beginning of the film, he is whistling “You Are My Lucky Star.” This song is also featured in Singin’ in the Rain (1952), which stars the same actress who plays Ewell’s girlfriend, Jean Hagen.
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