In real life, Leola Mae Harmon married her surgeon, Dr. James Stallings, and assists him in his plastic surgery practice.
Dr. James O. Stallings III committed suicide in September 1991 after struggling with Epstein-Barr virus (diagnosed 1987).
Leola Mae Harmon caught a virus in the spring of 1999 and died on May 19, 1999 of multiple organ failure only two weeks after her 54th birthday.
Leola Mae Harmon and Dr. James O. Stallings III divorced in 1976, but remained friends. She married Harold Swihart in 1982. They moved to Florida in 1988.
The night Dr. James O. Stallings III committed suicide was when this movie aired on cable television.