"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on
April 25, 1949 with Betty Grable and Dan Dailey reprising their film roles.
Dan Dailey's Best Actor Oscar nomination marked a career high-point, though his portrayal of 'Skid' Johnson never stood a chance opposite Laurence Olivier's loftier central performance in the same year's Hamlet (1948). This illustrates the sometimes ludicrous range of nominations in the acting categories during Hollywood's golden era, the result of a far wider spectrum of genres represented. A similar disparity had emerged three years earlier when Gene Kelly's lighthearted performance in the musical Anchors Aweigh (1945) was improbably pitted against Ray Milland's histrionic performance as a desperate alcoholic in The Lost Weekend (1945).
This was Twentieth Century Fox's #1 box-office hit of 1948.
This is the third film adaptation of the play "Burlesque". The first two were made by Paramount Pictures as The Dance of Life (1929) and Swing High, Swing Low (1937). The producers of this remake, 20th Century Fox, bought the rights to the earlier films so they could make their own version. Fox subsequently failed to renew the copyrights to both of the previous films, causing them to fall into the public domain, but renewed the copyright to their 1948 box office success. Eventually, in September 1996, Fox teamed up with Paramount on what was once the highest-grossing film of all time worldwide, Titanic (1997).