Irene Papas was offered but turned down the role of Josephine. She was replaced by Bryan Forbes regular Edith Evans.
The original Broadway production of "The Madwoman of Chaillot" by Jean Giraudoux opened at the Belasco Theater in New York on December 27, 1948 and ran for 368 performances.
The Place de Chaillot set, still standing at Studio la Victorine, was reused by François Truffaut as the set on which "Meet Pamela", the film-within-a-film in Day for Night, was being shot.
While he continued to appear in television productions, this was Danny Kaye's last motion picture film role.