Originally budgeted at $750,000, the film ended up costing $3,500,000.
The classic slapstick "Stooge" routines are kept to a minimum in this film, in part because by 1961 when this film was released, The Three Stooges' Columbia shorts were being shown on television, and Moe Howard was said to be very sensitive to parental complaints about the violence in the shorts.
Carol Heiss had won the Olympic gold for skating the year before. The film was designed as a showcase for her talents, hence the frequent interruptions in the plot for skating sequences.
Patricia Medina and Carol Heiss reportedly did not get along with each other in real life with Heiss doing her utmost to get Medina fired.