A scene featuring a song called "Walking Happy" was edited out before the film's release but was later used in (and was the title for) a Broadway show in New York. As Jackie Gleason sings the tune, he and his on-screen daughter Linda Bruhl walk down a hometown street while Gleason sings about the people they meet along the way. The song was composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Sammy Cahn, both of whom also wrote "Call Me Irresponsible," which remained in the film.
The Academy Award-winning song "Call Me Irresponsible" was first introduced on the soundtrack here by Jackie Gleason.
"The Hollywood Reporter" announced on November 29, 1955, that Fred Astaire would star in "Papa's Delicate Condition," but on January 31, 1956, it announced that Astaire would first star opposite Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson in Funny Face (1957). Once that film was completed in the summer of 1956, Astaire's interest in "Papa's Delicate Condition" had evaporated and the project languished until it was re-worked as a vehicle for Jackie Gleason.
When Amberlyn and her daughters run away to her father in Texarkana, his house is actually just the next building to the right of their "Louisiana" house on the Warners Midwest Street backlot.
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 America's Greatest Music in the Movies for the song "Call Me Irresponsible."