Already an Oscar-winning screenwriter, Sidney Sheldon had pivoted to become a best-selling author, and this was the first of his novels to become a movie. As WWII rages, Marie-France Pisier (of Cousin cousine and Celine and Julie Go Boating) falls for U.S. flyboy John Beck; when he instead marries Susan Sarandon back home, she becomes a movie star and ponders payback. This earned costume designer Irene Sharaff her final Oscar nomination; she had won five prior.