The number "It's the Animal in Me" was originally intended for We're Not Dressing (1934), but was cut from that movie before release.
Carlos Gardel was killed in a plane crash three months before the release of this film.
The fact that Carlos Gardel was killed before the premiere led to Paramount Pictures' decision to delete his two numbers - except in Uruguay and South American countries, where the film was issued as "Cazadores de Estrellas", and included these two songs. It was also released in France where it was called "Simphonie burlesque". Celia Villa, daughter of revolutionary leader Pancho Villa, appears alongside him in the musical sequence with the ox cart. See Mundo Gardeliano for more details.
One of over seven hundred Paramount Pictures 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 Boston Monday 22 December 1958 on WBZ (Channel 4); it first aired in Seattle Sunday 13 December 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7).
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 America's Greatest Music in the Movies for the song "Miss Brown to You."