This film was not successful at the box office, resulting in a loss of $42,000 ($744,000 in 2023) according to studio records.
Utilizes musical motifs borrowed from MGM's Pride and Prejudice (1940) that were, interestingly enough, applied to Marsha Hunt's supporting character in that film.
This film's initial USA telecast took place in Minneapolis Monday 21 January 1957 on KMGM (Channel 9); it first aired in New Haven CT 11 February 1957 on WNHC (Channel 8), in Altoona PA 19 February 1957 on WFBG (Channel 10), in Chicago 5 March 1957 on WBBM (Channel 2), in Seattle 12 March 1957 on KING (Channel 7), in Philadelphia 19 March 1957 on WFIL (Channel 6), in Portland OR 3 April 1957 on KGW (Channel 8), and in Hartford CT 14 April 1957 on WHCT (Channel 18); it was first telecast in Los Angeles 15 January 1958 on KTTV (Channel 11) and in San Francisco 1 April 1959 on KGO (Channel 7); in New York City its earliest documented airing took place 15 May 1963 on WCBS (Channel 2). .
Although it's surely a coincidence, the film's plot is quite similar to that of The Help (2011), made almost 70 years later. Obviously, the central issue of the latter movie, racial tensions, is absent from this comedy.