There are two scenes where the song "My Foolish Heart" is playing in the background. Both Dana Andrews and Robert Keith were in the film titled My Foolish Heart (1949) several years earlier.
Based on short stories by Edward Newhouse that were written about his hometown, the Edgerton neighborhood of Rochester, New York. Originally published in The New Yorker magazine, a collection was published in 1951 in a book titled "Many Are Called: Forty-two Short Stories".