 The mansion used for this film was located at 700 Berkshire Avenue, LaCanada Flintridge, Los Angeles County, was previously owned by William Joseph Connery, a silent-movie era independent movie producer.He called the home "Villa Ardaree" and it was known before that as Dryborough, after the original owners.In his review in "The New York Times", Vincent Canby called the film "dreadful" and added, "It holds up a wax dummy of a character intended to represent the great misanthropic comedian and expects us to feel compassion but only traps us in embarrassment .