Herbert Marshall and Laraine Day played daughter and father in Foreign Correspondent. In this film, they play a love interest brought on by the character of Shirley Temple.
A body double for Herbert Marshall was used in the scene where his character runs past Shirley Temple and up the stairs after Mrs. Farrell opens the box containing a firecracker. Marshall lost a leg in WWI and body doubles were always used whenever his character had to run or walk quickly up staircases.
Laraine Day was only 8 years older than Shirley Temple.
In her 1988 autobiography "Child Star," Shirley Temple talked about the sexual abuse she suffered during her career from various actors and studio executives, including when she was a child. One experience happened when she first moved from 20th Century Fox to MGM to make this film. She was invited into the office of Arthur Freed, known for his work on hits like An American in Paris (1951) and Singin' in the Rain (1952). Freed declared that she would be his new star, and then unzipped his pants and exposed himself to the actress, who was 11 years old at the time. Maybe out of youthful innocence or just out of shock, Temple began to laugh. This angered the producer, who then threw her out of his office.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on
December 27, 1943 with Shirley Temple and Herbert Marshall reprising their film roles.