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 Wednesday 24 June 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7) and in Omaha Wednesday 23 September 1959 on KETV (Channel 7).