Sauce for the Gander was produced by the Wilding Pictures Corporation for the Hotpoint Appliance Company specifically to promote their fridges and stoves.
This was just one of the hundreds of Sponsored films ( really a 59-minute-long commercial for General Electric's Hot Point Stoves and Refrigerators) that a penny-pinching double-feature exhibitor could pick up for free in whatever non-major film exchange he booked his films. Some of the time this freebie sponsored commercial was better than the Monogram/PRC/Republic or major-company b-movie feature he paid for. In the 1940s, there were over 56 companies (in dozens of cities across the country) that made sponsored films, 16mm home/church/school films, company training films, one-minute-theatrical commercial, previews (trailers), credit frames for mostly non-major films but also some majors.Wilding Pictures Productions, Inc, Detroit, Michigan was one of them. Another one was Strickland and Industrial Film Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia, whose clients included the Coca-Cola Company, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co., Sears and Roebuck Co., Georgia State Highway Patrol and Durham and Southern Railway. Caravel Films, Inc. in New York City had a client list that included the American Can Company, Best Foods, the Borden Company, Cadillac Motor Car Company, E.I.Dupont, American Machime and Metals, Chase-Peabody & Co., B. F. Goodrich, National Biscuit Company (Nabisco), Pepsi-Cola, Sinclair Refining Company, Secony Vacuum, The Texas Company (Texico)and Ethyl Gasoline, among others.
Why does the DVD box cover non-poster, or whatever it is, for this double feature of the 1940 "Sauce and the Gander" (correctly showing clips of Alan Ladd and Joan Woodbury) and the 1940 "Meat and Romance" also show Ann Miller, who is not in either film.