This was completed in mid-1943, but not released until mid-1944.
Mimi Chandler who plays the sister with acting aspirations, was the daughter of baseball commissioner and Kentucky senator and governor Happy Chandler. She was married to songwriter Buddy DeSylva who was the powerful Executive Producer at Paramount Pictures in the years this film was made.
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 earliest documented telecast took place in Seattle Tuesday 21 October 1958 on KIRO (Channel 7); it first aired in Denver Monday 1 June 1959 on KBTV (Channel 9) and in Boston Wednesday 29 June 1959 on WBZ (Channel 4).
Although the film takes its title from Benny Goodman's 1939 hit, only a few bars of it are used as underscoring in an early scene.