Joan Leslie was originally considered for the Marilyn Miller role before June Haver was cast.
This was not the first time Rosemary DeCamp portrayed the mother of a famous Broadway personality. In Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) she portrayed the mother of George M. Cohan, and in Rhapsody in Blue (1945) she portrayed George Gershwin's mother.
Final film of actress Lillian Yarbo.