A lengthy musical number, "New Deal Rhythm," of which only a short segment now remains, was removed from the feature during the editing process and released separately as a short subject.
The original Broadway production of "Take a Chance" opened at the Apollo Street Theater on November 26, 1932 with Ethel Merman and ran for 243 performances.
Vivian Vance made her talkie debut in the "Eadie Was a Lady" number. She's the singer on the stairway. She had appeared in one silent film in 1926.
The musical revue in this movie is called "Humpty Dumpty." There really was a Broadway musical of this name, but it was a pantomime, and was put on in 1868 and revived in 1906.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecast took place in Minneapolis 20 June 1959 on WTCN (Channel 11).