Trivia

This production marked the first time that a musical work by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and Harry Warren was used in a film.

A popular misconception is that all musicals following The Broadway Melody (1929) featured pre-recorded soundtracks for the musical numbers. This is not true, as most musicals in the first wave of early talkies were churned out so quickly that there was seldom time for pre-or post-recording. The musical numbers for Spring is Here (1930) were clearly recorded on the set, evidenced by the execution of "With a Song in My Heart," in which Lawrence Gray and Bernice Claire each make errors in their rendition of the lyrics. Obviously, the song was not as well known then as it is now but, even so, the powers that be clearly did not go back to rectify the errors in post- recording. Another giveaway of on-set recording is the seemingly perfect lip-synching of this era; had prerecording been used as widely as once believed, modern-day audiences would be able to spy far more errors in synching.

Although included among the more than 700 features in the Warner Bros. library acquired for television broadcast by Associated Artists Productions (AAP) in 1956, this one was rarely taken off the shelf because of its age and lack of star names still familiar to audiences of the 1950s. Its earliest documented television broadcast took place in San Francisco-Oakland Monday 1 December 1958 on Movie Matinee on KTVU (Channel 2). Today it's firmly entrenched in the Turner Classic Movies archives and was most recently taken out for an airing Wednesday 24 March 2021 on TCM.

Had its "gala" premiere in Toledo, Ohio, and subsequently did moderate to poor business during its original run in other major American cities.

Running at 70 minutes, only about half the songs from the Broadway production were used.