The movie shown in the movie theater scene (about an hour into the film) is another Warner Bros. release, Footlight Parade (1933).
Film debut of Alan Hale Jr. who appears only in a framed photograph on a desk, as the son of a judge.
Shortly after the film, Dorothy Coonan married director William A. Wellman. This film is her only credited role. After marrying Wellman, she quit films, save for a small role in Story of G.I. Joe (1945), also directed by Wellman. They would remain married until his death in 1975. She was not billed as Dorothy Coonan Wellman until decades later when she was in a TV documentary, Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995), honoring her husband.
About fifteen minutes into the movie, the main character Eddie says to his father "I guess I'm just like my cousin Hoogo." This is a
reference to a character from the 1920s and 1930s created by Jack Pearl. The character he created was Baron Munchausen. Munchausen told fanciful stories about his life, and they often involved his fictional cousin Hugo (pronounced Hoogo). Pearl played the character in musical reviews in the 1920s, and then in radio shows in the early 1930s.