According to Margaret J. Bailey's book on Hollywood costume design of the 1930's, "Those Glorious Glamour Years," apple trees in blossom were required for some scenes. Frost in California had decimated the apple trees, so studio technicians at Paramount Studios worked overnight, peeling rosebuds down and sticking them on bare trees with maple syrup to simulate an apple orchard in full blossom.
One of only three musicals in which Randolph Scott appeared in his career, the others being Roberta (1935) and Follow the Fleet (1936). Scott neither sang nor danced in any of them.
Randolph Scott's costar, Irene Dunne, was his favorite of all the leading ladies he ever worked with. This according to Harold Reid in the book Random Memories. Harold was a member of The Statler Brothers who wrote and sang "Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott". They met Scott after the song became a hit.
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 telecasts took place in Seattle Thursday 20 November 1958 on KIRO (Channel 7) and in Boston Sunday 25 January 1959 on WBZ (Channel 4); it first aired in Omaha Sunday 22 February 1959 on KETV (Channel 7), followed by Asheville 11 May 1959 on WLOS (Channel 13), by New York City 1 August 1959 on WCBS (Channel 2), by Phoenix 24 October 1959 on KVAR (Channel 12), by Johnstown 16 November 1959 on WJAC (Channel 6), by Pittsburgh 28 March 1960 on KDKA (Channel 2), and by Minneapolis 18 August 1960 on WTCN (Channel 11). It was released on DVD 9 December 2014 as part of the Universal Vault Series.
Marjorie Cameron's debut.