 Unknowns were cast in smaller and less meaningful parts that rounded out the cast.Though thought of as one of Mansfield's latter low-budget films, "It Happened in Athens" was actually made on a large budget and was produced in CinemaScope and DeLuxe color.Like several other Fox films during the early 1960s, the feature was made to bring quick profit to the studio, which was going broke due to the rising costs and expanding production schedule of the expensive historical epic "Cleopatra".