Because of the Hays Code, screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz changed the setting from a Paris brothel to a nightclub in New Orleans, and changed the main character from a prostitute to a more ambiguous nightclub singer and hostess, in adapting the 1939 novel of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham.
Top-billed Gene Kelly doesn't make his first appearance until 26 minutes into the picture.
Deanna Durbin had fights with director Robert Siodmak over her interpretation of her character.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60-minute radio adaptation of the movie on
September 17, 1945, with Loretta Young as Jackie/Abigail, William Holden as Lt. Mason, and David Bruce as Robert Manette.
Deanna Durbin considered "Christmas Holiday" a film of which she was proud.
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