Many of the Earl Carroll Girls featured in the film were authentic cast members from Carroll's stage show, which ran from September 12th to November, 1933, at the New Amsterdam Theatre, and at the Majestic Theatre from November 6th, 1933 to March 10th, 1934. These cast members were brought out to Hollywood from New York especially for this film, and many stayed to pursue film careers.
This is the film that contains the "Sweet Marijuana" song and dance number. It got past the censors because at the time the film was made, the drug was not illegal. Today most prints omit this production number altogether.
Based on a Broadway production of the same name, but completely rewritten for the screen and with all new musical numbers.
According the Kitty Carlisle in the documentary Complicated Women (2003), when the "Sweet Marijuana" number was being filmed, she had no idea what marijuana was. She thought it was a Mexican musical instrument. In the same documentary she said that in some parts the girls were almost naked and the studio promised that no photograph would be taken, but she said she has her in the bedroom of her apartment, that how the studios worked since the silent films,