This film uses the name "Santa Teresa" for a thinly veiled "fictional" version of Santa Barbara, where the hotel exteriors were shot. Beginning in the 1980's, writer Sue Grafton would set her popular Kinsey Millhone mystery novels in "Santa Teresa," also a thinly veiled fictional version of Santa Barbara.
According to columnist J.D. Spiro, 450 female dancers auditioned for dance director Le Roy Prinz. Twenty-four were selected to appear in the final film.
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 Seattle Monday 2 February 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7); it first aired in Minneapolis Thursday 22 October 1959 on WTCN (Channel 11).
Lola Jensen's debut.