When it premiered in New York City on June 22, 1933, the running time was one hour and eight minutes, and reviewers complained about the "choppy" editing. As a result, missing sequences were restored, and the running time was extended to one hour and twenty minutes, which is the version presently available on DVD.
One of over seven hundred Paramount Pictures 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; its earliest documented telecast took place in Phoenix Saturday 16 May 1959 on KVAR (Channel 6); it first aired in Seattle Sunday 15 November 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7); it was released on DVD November 10, 2010 as one of six titles in the Bing Crosby Collection, part of the Universal Backlot Series, again November 11, 2014 as one of twenty-four titles in Universal's Bing Crosby Silver Screen Collection, and again, as a single, June 21, 2016 as part of the Universal Vault Series.
When writer and future Oscar winner Julius J. Epstein first arrived in Hollywood in 1933, he was told to watch the making of this movie on the soundstage in order to get him acclimated to moviemaking and production techniques.
College student Jack Oakie was thirty years old at the time.
The film's World Premiere showing occurred at Loew's Palace theatre, Washington, DC. 16 June 1933.
(Washington Times, 15 June 1933)