In her autobiography, Doris Day reported that she was suffering from nervous exhaustion following the strenuous production schedule for "Calamity Jane" (1953) and did not feel sturdy enough to begin work on "Lucky Me" (1954). When her husband-manager Martin Melcher and Warner Bros. strong-armed her into moving forward, she suffered what she termed a "nervous breakdown" during filming.
This was the first Warner Bros. musical to be filmed in CinemaScope.
When her MGM contract did not pan out, Nancy Walker returned to the Broadway stage in 1944. "Lucky Me" (1954) was the only film she made in the 1950s and would be her final movie musical.
Robert Cummings' vocals were dubbed by Hal Derwin, whom studio heads frequently hired to ghost their non-singing leading men. Derwin also dubbed Cummings in "The Petty Girl" (1950), as well as Gene Nelson in "Lullaby of Broadway" (1951) and "She's Working Her Way Through College" (1952), Larry Parks in "Down to Earth" (1947), Lee Bowman in "Smash Up: The Story of a Woman" (1947) and "My Dream is Yours" (1949), and Cliff Robertson in "The Girl Most Likely" (1957).