 In August 1943 the project was reactivated when Paramount head of production Buddy DeSylva have it to producer John Houseman, who had just made "The Unseen" for the studio.In January 1944 the project was officially put back on Paramount's schedule with a new screenplay done (Hugo Butler was borrowed from MGM to do this) and Betty Field listed as star.The novel was set in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins Hospital but references to that specific city and hospital were removed from the script.