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; rarely taken off the shelf due to its age and pre-code plot situations, its earliest documented telecast took place in Los Angeles Friday 4 March 1960 on The Classic Theatre series of the Late, Late Show on KNXT (Channel 2).