Dolly Parton wrote and sang the song "I Will Always Love You". In an interview on the Graham Norton show, she said that when they asked to use the song for the movie, she sent it in and forgot about it. Then one day she was driving from her office to her house in Nashville when she heard Whitney Houston's version on the radio. She had to pull over to the side of the road in order to finish listening to it, because she was blown away by how beautifully the song was done, and by how beautifully Whitney Houston sang it.
As of 2021, with over 50 million albums sold, the film has the best-selling soundtrack of all time. La febbre del sabato sera (1977) is second, with about 10 million fewer albums sold.
Rachel's mansion is the same mansion as the "horse's head in the bed" Jack Woltz mansion in "Il padrino (1972)."
This was Whitney Houston's first movie role. Kevin Costner was one of the movie's producers. He campaigned to have Houston play Rachel.