A number of screenwriters worked on "Wild and Wonderful", including Philip Rapp, Richard Powell, Larry Markes, Michael Morris and Waldo Salt. Director Michael Anderson returned to work with Hecht for a second time after "Flight from Ashiya", with seven-time Academy Award nominated cinematographer, Joseph LaShelle, who had won an Oscar for "Laura" in 1945. The film was entirely set in Paris but because of Universal's limited budget, it became one of the few movies that Hecht was not granted permission to film on actual location. It was shot at Universal Studios with sets superbly designed by Ruby R. Levitt, an Oscar-nominated set decorator who had previously worked with Hecht on "Kiss the Blood Off My Hands" (also filmed at Universal Studios, in 1948). "Wild and Wonderful" was released in the spring of 1964 but was a box-office disappointment.