Production
The film's working title was "The Way the Ball Bounces". Producer/director Joshua Logan originally intended the film to be a vehicle for both Jane Fonda and Warren Beatty to make their screen debuts, but Warner Bros. would not approve the unknown Beatty for the part, and Logan had to settle for his second choice, Anthony Perkins.
Fonda had hated the Broadway play, but was pleased that her part in the film script had been expanded. Logan was a good friend of her father, Henry Fonda, and saw Jane as a potential major star. We wanted to guide her through her first film experience – she had been modelling for several years – but Fonda found it a "Kafkaesque nightmare".
Campus scenes were filmed at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles California.
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