In her 1991 autobiography One Lifetime is Not Enough, Gabor recounts a memorable line of her dialogue in the film and cites the production costs for creating the highly tailored fashions worn by her character:

Sigh.... Turner Classic Movies always provides us with the best and the worst. The "Queen of Outer Space (Queen of the Universe)" can be described as the so bad its good movie but not quite that good. This is one of those films you can't take very seriously, because if you do you're bound to hate it. If you are able to by-pass the sexist dingers and the incredibly poor special-effects, you may find this film likeable due to the campy-vintage feel.So bad it's good" movies really are a matter of personal taste; one person's hilarity is another's boredom. I personally felt the film held its own pretty well considering how noticeably stupid the whole concept was. In the end, "The Queen from Outer Space" is very easy on the eyes, can be hilariously bad at certain points but it just goes on about twenty minutes too long. The sexist liners were actually starting to bug me and I'm a dude so, you know it is pretty bad. The script was written by TV's Twilight Zone writer Charles Beaumont, obviously he didn't put much effort in this film here as there were great stretches of flat dialogue with accidentally funny one-liners, most memorably Zsa Zsa Gabor's "I HATE zat Queen!" Not to mention some awful sexist one-liners that would send feminists today into a crazy rage. The film was directed by Edward Bernds, a prolific creator of grade C movies during the 1940s and 1950s, and in general consists of people standing around looking like they wished they had something to do. Mitchell was born in Manhattan on July 14, 1928. [1] Her parents were Samuel and Adele Koren. [2] She began her career in The Bronx where she was a child model. [1] Her family moved to Los Angeles when Mitchell was in her teens. [3] Career edit

Two pictures were placed in Class B, as morally objectionable in part for all by the Legion of Decency, which reviewed seven films this week. In the B category are " Man of the West" and "Queen of Outer Space." Objection to the first was explained thusly, "the highly moral nature of this story is substantially marred by excessive brutality and unnecessary suggestiveness." Of "Queen," the group said it contains "suggestive costuming." [12] See also edit a b Weaver, Tom (2000). Return of the B Science Fiction and Horror Heroes. McFarland & Company. p. 55. ISBN 978-0786407552. Gabor, Zsa Zsa; "assisted by" and edited by Wendy Leigh. One Lifetime is Not Enough. New York, N.Y: Delacorte Press 1991, pp. 155-156.

Also included in the cast are Guy Prescott as Colonel Ramsey (uncredited), Gerry Gaylor as the base commander, Ralph Gamble as the officer in the anteroom (uncredited), and Joi Lansing as an astronaut's girlfriend (uncredited). The Venusians are played by Tania Velia, Norma Young, Marjorie Durant, Brandy Bryan, Ruth Lewis, June McCall, and Marilyn Buferd, who was a former Miss America (1946). This was Buferd's final role in her decade-plus film career. The trade publication Motion Picture Daily reported in 1958 that the National Legion of Decency objected to the content of Queen of Outer Space. In its October 3 issue, less than a month after the film's release, the magazine provides a few examples of the Legion's classification system for judging a Hollywood production's level of "decency":