Lou Costello, as he did in virtually all the films he appeared in, makes a reference to his home town of Paterson, New Jersey.
The lavish sets utilized were left over from MGM's Kismet (1944), which starred Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich and Edward Arnold.
The film was banned in Morocco and had to be edited before it could be shown in Syria.
Douglass Dumbrille and Bud Abbott recreate The Marx Brothers' famous mirror scene from Duck Soup (1933).
Universal loaned MGM John Grant, the comedy team's personal gag writer, to script some of their patented pun routines.