Two of Joan Blondell's real-life husbands were involved in this film. Her first husband, cinematographer George Barnes, photographed it (she was his fourth of seven wives). Her second husband, Dick Powell, was her co-star.
When Dick Powell gives an Italian the Fascist salute, he undermines it by saying, "L'chaim!"--"To your health" in Yiddish.
At one point, Joan Blondell tells the singer for her boss' radio show, "Women don't marry crooners - they only divorce them!" The year after making this, Blondell married her co-star here, crooner Dick Powell. And in 1944...she divorced him.
In the singing audition scene, the "hillbilly" girl in pigtails who yodels so loudly is a young Judy Canova, who would later become a legendary vocalist on radio and TV, as well as a major "star" in low budget/lowbrow Poverty Row musicals of the 1940s.
When he made this, Dick Powell was one of Warners' most popular (and busiest) contract players. He appeared in no less than five films in 1935, and was ranked 7th in Quigley Publications' poll of Top Box Office Stars, voted by the owners of thousands of American movie theaters.
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