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 initial television broadcast took place in Seattle Tuesday 6 January 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7); it was released on DVD 8 October 2002 in tandem with My Favorite Blonde (1942) as part of Universal's Bob Hope Tribute Collection.
Director A. Edward Sutherland and cinematographer John F. Seitz shot the "That Old Black Magic" number, uncredited.
"B.G. DeSoto" and "Y. Frank Freemont" were caricatures of actual Paramount executives Buddy G. DeSylva and Y. Frank Freeman. Additionally, "Freemont" is shown in one scene drinking a Coca-Cola, the preferred beverage of true-blue Southerners like Freeman.
Included among the American Film Institute's 2006 list of 180 movies nominated for AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals.