This film was a success at the box office, earning MGM a profit of $428,000 (about $5.53M in 2024) according to studio records.
In her autobiography, Jane Powell says that years later, she reconnected with George Brent who would occasionally court her. He proposed marriage and she turned him down, because she wasn't interested in getting married again. Brent was upset with her after she married James Fitzgerald in 1965.
In the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, the Danish tenor Lauritz Melchior was generally considered the world's preeminent performer of Wagner's big heldentenor (heroic tenor) roles, such as Siegmund, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Walther von Stolzing, Tristan, Tannhauser, and Parsifal. Numerous recordings of him singing these roles are available.
"Cugat's Nugat," one of Xavier Cugat's signature themes, had appeared just a few months earlier in another Jane Powell vehicle, O Príncipe Encantado (1948), where it served as the climactic rumba sequence for Wallace Beery and Selena Royle. In Luxury Liner (1948), Cugat and his orchestra perform the lyric, which was not heard in the earlier incarnation.