One of many films Bing Crosby made with a non-singing leading lady, owing to the fact that Paramount had no bona fide singing stars under contract. Both Betty Hutton and Dorothy Lamour were singers, after a fashion, and both paired off with Crosby one or more times, but Hutton was a comedienne and Lamour specialized in exotics and deadpan foils. As a result, Crosby became highly skilled at serenading dramatic actresses such as Joan Fontaine, Marjorie Reynolds. Joan Caulfield, Coleen Gray, Grace Kelly and, in the case of Mr. Music (1950), Nancy Olson. Because of the shortage of distaff songbirds, Paramount often either borrowed or signed singing stars for one or two-picture deals, which resulted in memorable on-screen sparks between Crosby and Mitzi Gaynor, Rhonda Fleming, Jane Wyman, Ann Blyth, Peggy Lee and Rosemary Clooney.
On the Decca Records 10-inch LP of selections from the Johnny Burke-Jimmy Van Heusen film score, Bing Crosby crooned "Life Is So Peculiar" and "High on the List" with The Andrews Sisters, who did not appear in the picture. One guest star in the movie, diva Dorothy Kirsten, joined Bing on the Decca album for two ditties: "Accidents Will Happen" and "Milady."
This picture, the first screen pairing of Marge and Gower Champion, would be their only appearance together in black and white. Their six following movies, released between 1951 and 1955, were all shot in color.
A loose remake of Accent on Youth (1935), and remade again less than a decade later as But Not For Me (1959), with Clark Gable and Carroll Baker in the roles played here by Bing Crosby and Nancy Olson.
Bing Crosby (b.1903) was twenty-five years older than his co-star Nancy Olson (b.1928).