Dan Greenburg wrote the film's screenplay, which he adapted from his own 1969 novel
Philly. Producer R. Ben Efraim would produce a number of additional
Private... movies over the next decade, including 1983's
Private School (which features a brief appearance by Kristel), and two in-name-only sequels to
Private Lessons in 1993 and 1994. During the bedroom striptease, Judy Helden performed as the body double for Kristel. The film was financed primarily by
Jack Barry & Dan Enright Productions, even though its two chief producers,
Jack Barry and
Dan Enright, were better known for their
game shows on television, of which Barry was the host and Enright the primary producer. The company's announcer at the time,
Jay Stewart, provided the narration for one of the movie trailers for the film. The film was also the first picture for Jensen Farley Pictures (a subsidiary of
Sunn Classic Pictures), a movie studio founded by Rayland Jensen (founder of Sunn Classic Pictures) and his fellow employee, Clair Farley. Sunn, initially a subsidiary of the
Schick razor company, would be sold to
Taft Broadcasting in 1980, shortly before this film's release. Jensen Farley Pictures was created after the sale to Taft, and one of the company's early releases was a film produced by Taft,
The Boogens, initially planned for release through Sunn. Jensen Farley would later release another sex comedy whose selling point was the promise of a young man coupled with an alluring older woman,
Homework with
Joan Collins. Director
Alan Myerson and the cinematographer he hired,
Jan de Bont, shot their principal photography for the film in Arizona and New Mexico over the course of 6 weeks during the summer of 1980. In 1985, the film was made in Italian as
Il peccato di Lola (''Lola's Sin'') starring
Donatella Damiani. ==See also==