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; this films earliest documented telecast took place in Charlotte NC Thursday 7 April 1960 on WSOC (Channel 9).
"'Opened by Mistake', acquired in the film circuits the sort of bad luck reputation that 'Macbeth' had in the theatre; three cinemas showing it were bombed." - 'How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life During the Second World War' by Norman Longmate