 Columbia chief Harry Cohn (I) (qv) had serious misgivings about  this adaptation of Harry Segall (qv)s minor stage play. He  preferred to reserve his more lavish budgets for surefire successes  (i.e., anything featuring the studios biggest star,  Rita Hayworth (qv)). However, Sidney Buchman (qv) was eventually  able to talk Cohn into forking out for costly celestial sets and  Farnsworths elaborate mansion and also into hiring  Robert Montgomery (I) (qv) on loan