Anecdotes

National Guardsmen trained the actors to be soldiers for the movie.

When Bob Hope is going through pictures of girls, he tears one up crying "Brenda and Cobina!" These were the names of two characters on his radio show who were famous for being unattractive and unable to get dates. In the same speech he mentions "a redhead named Lucille."

According to production notes on the DVD, this movie opened at Paramount in NY and became the 2nd film in the theater's 15-year history to enjoy a 5-week run.

When Bob is seen wearing a towel, his agent comments that Miss Fairbanks (Dorothy Lamour) should see him in "that sarong." Wearing sarongs was a trademark of Lamour.

One of over 700 Paramount 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 telecasts took place in Seattle Monday 10 November 1958 on KIRO (Channel 7) and in Boston Sunday 1 February 1959 on WBZ (Channel 4); it was released on DVD 8 October 2002 in tandem with Give Me a Sailor (1938) as part of the Bob Hope Tribute Collection.