The campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was extensively used as a stand-in for Alden College. The original 18th century Alden College school house was placed just east of Powell Library. (An imaginary tower and other buildings were matte-painted in the background to make the campus appear more built-up.)
Hollywood, Jan. 27, 1937 United Press story: John Payne and Martha Raye both limped today as a result of a movie-set accident. Payne was supposed to pick up the wide-mouthed actress for a scene in "College Swing." He slipped and fell with her. Payne was barefooted and had one of his toe nails jerked off. Miss Raye suffered a sprained ankle.
One of over seven hundred Paramount Pictures 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 Monday 3 November 1958 on KIRO (Channel 7); it first aired in Omaha Thursday 2 July 1959 on KETV (Channel 7); it was released on DVD March 5, 2002 in tandem with The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) as part of the Bob Hope Tribute Collection, and again as a single October 30, 2015 as part of the Universal Vault Series.
Hubert Dash (Edward Everett Horton) arrives at Alden College in a 1937 Lincoln Model K Limousine.
Bob Hope and George Burns were both centenarians when they died and were comedians.
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