Cyd Charisse got her start in Hollywood when Ballet Russe star David Lichine was hired by Columbia for a ballet sequence in this film. Cyd, who was then billed as Lily Norwood, appeared in the scene and attracted attention. Movie offers, including a dancing role opposite Fred Astaire in Ziegfeld Follies (1945), led to a seven-year contract with MGM.
Janet Blair's character frequently refers to her home town as Altoona, PA. This was Blair's home town in real life.
When the police officer asks Don Ameche's character if he knows how to use a phone, he responds, "I invented it!" This was an in-joke since Ameche played Alexander Graham Bell in the 1939 film.
Final film of Rita and Rubin.
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