Actress Jodie Foster only had three weeks break between the end of production on Freaky Friday (1976) and the start of principal photography on Candleshoe (1977).
Jodie Foster turned down the chance to play Violet in Pretty Baby (1978) in order to play Casey in this film.
The fictional English estate and stately mansion home of "Candleshoe" aka ''Candleshoe Manor;; was portrayed by ''Compton Wynyates'' in Warwickshire county in England. This is the home of British peer Spencer Douglas David Compton, who is nick-named "Spenny", his title being the 7th Marquess of Northampton.
The film was made and released about twenty-four years after its source novel "Christmas at Candleshoe" by Michael Innes had been first published in 1953.
David Niven: Uncredited, as the Scottish gardener Gipping who is impersonated by Niven's credited Priory the butler character to Lady Gwendolyn St. Edmund (Helen Hayes).
David Niven: Uncredited, as the old Colonel Dennis who is impersonated by Niven's credited Priory the butler character to Lady Gwendolyn St. Edmund (Helen Hayes).
David Niven: Uncredited, as the tippling chauffeur John Henry who is impersonated by Niven's credited Priory the butler character to Lady Gwendolyn St. Edmund (Helen Hayes).