The clip from this film shown in the 2004 miniseries Broadway: The American Musical (2004) marks the first time that any part of this film has ever been shown on television in color. It was long considered lost, and as of 2004 still has not been shown on TV in its entirety since its restoration.
Only one complete color print of this film survived in Paramount's vault. Eventually it was turned over to UCLA, which preserved it in 1990.
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. Although filmed entirely in 2-strip Technicolor, all television prints were in black and white; rarely taken off the shelf because of its age, its earliest documented telecast took place in Toledo OH Thursday 4 August 1960 on WTOL (Channel 11).
Ernst Lubitsch oversaw the retakes, including a battle montage near the end of the film, without credit.
Jeanette MacDonald complained that her co-star, Dennis King, kept trying to upstage her. He tried to get his face into so many of her closeups that she joked their big duet together, "Only a Rose," should be renamed "Only a Nose."