One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929-49, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Its earliest documented telecasts took place in Omaha Friday 3 July 1959 on KETV (Channel 7), and in both Minneapolis on WTCN (Channel 11) and Indianapolis Monday 24 September 1959 where it launched the Paramount Film Library, introduced by the star of the film, Frances Farmer, who hosted a daily film series on WFBM (Channel 6); it first aired in Seattle 30 September 1959.