In the song, "Thanks For the Memory" the censors demanded that the lyric, "That weekend at Niagara / Where we never saw the falls" should be changed to "That weekend at Niagara / Where we hardly saw the falls." Bob Hope later said, "I thought this made the lyric sound even more suggestive."
Just after he lands on the S.S. Gigantic, W. C. Fields asks a crew member to open a case for him, adding "Wipe the top of the bottle off." This appears to be a typical Fields ad lib. There is an explosive laugh from all the extras, and Leif Erickson can be seen trying to keep a straight face.
First full-length movie for Bob Hope, where he first sings his future theme song "Thanks for the Memory" with Shirley Ross. The song won the Academy Award for Best Song at the 1939 awards ceremony. Bob Hope later in his career also introduced the Academy Award winning song "Buttons and Bows" in the movie The Paleface, making him one of the few individuals to introduce more than one Best Song in a movie.
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929-49, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecasts took place in Boston Thursday 27 November 1958 on WBZ (Channel 4) and in Seattle Thursday 11 December 1958 on KIRO (Channel 7); it first aired in Omaha Friday 28 August 1959 on KETV (Channel 7); it was released on DVD 5 March 2002 in tandem with College Swing (1938) as part of the Bob Hope Tribute Collection, and again, as a single 30 October 2015 as part of the Universal Vault Series.