Chris Fujiwara, in a 2015 study of Preminger's films, draws attention to the fact that Daisy Kenyon is "possibly the first Hollywood film to allude to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II."
Film scholar Chris Fujiwara, in his 2015 analysis of Preminger's movies, notes that Daisy Kenyon may be the first Hollywood film to suggest the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.