 This film is a gender-swapped remake of another Paramount film, "The Major and the Minor" (1942), directed by Billy Wilder — his first American film as director — and co-written by Wilder and Charles Brackett.Both films were adapted from the play "Connie Goes Home" by Edward Childs Carpenter.Diana Lynn previously appeared with Martin and Lewis in their first film, "My Friend Irma" (1949), as well as its sequel, "My Friend Irma Goes West" (1950).