During the fashion show, Anne Bancroft's character is introduced as wearing a ball gown by Jean Louis who was Columbia Pictures' costume designer. He designed the costumes for this film and many classics, including The Lady from Shanghai (1947) and From Here to Eternity (1953). He also was the costume designer for the 1960s TV sitcom Green Acres (1965).
Quentin Tarantino has said this picture influenced his development of the character "Butch" played by Bruce Willis in his film Pulp Fiction (1994).
Marie says her fashion show dress cost $650. That amount would equate to over $6,130 in 2020.
Along with The Prowler (1951), Crime Wave (1953), and Murder by Contract (1958), this film was listed by author James Ellroy as one of his favorite noir films with a Los Angeles setting.
The $350,000 in the bag would equate to over $3.3M in 2020. Also for that amount of money to be in such a small bag, it would have to be in mostly $100 bills (or higher, which were still used at that time). That much in $100 bills (3,500 of them) would weigh a little over 7.7 pounds (3.5 kg).