In this her first film since 1957's Forty Guns, the very private Stanwyck was yet another classic-era star forced to embrace the burgeoning era of movie permissiveness and take on a role she at one time might have considered unsavory.

 

Hollywood columnist Louella Parsons disapproved of Stanwyck taking on such a role, to which 

Stanwyck is said to have responded "What do you want them to do, get a real madam and a real lesbian?"  

 

On the bright side, at least she was playing a lesbian madam in a major motion picture, by 1964 Stanwyck would be following in Joan Crawford's B-movie footsteps and starring in a William Castle schlock thriller, The Night Walker.