The movie's box office received a big boost when Dick Powell and Joan Blondell were married shortly before its release. Although they had been cast to gain publicity from their public romance.
When Dick Powell's doctor ordered him to rest his throat, Warner Bros. considered replacing him with Rudy Vallee.
Based on the lackluster rushes of this film, particularly leading lady Jeanne Madden's dearth of star quality, studio chief Jack L. Warner withdrew further funds, making this the only entry in Busby Berkeley's canon of 1930s backstage musicals that does not culminate in a spectacular production number as its finale.
Largely owing to her bubbly personality, Joan Blondell appeared in many Busby Berkeley-directed musicals of the Depression era despite the fact that she possessed no singing or dancing talents whatsoever. Blondell usually figured heavily in the plots of these films, leaving the musical chores to the likes of James Cagney, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler or Ginger Rogers. When her characters were called upon to sing, Blondell was either dubbed or she 'talk-sang' her way through her portions of the number, as in "All's Fair in Love and War" from Gold Diggers of 1937 (1937). The only musical number ever staged around her specifically was "The Girl at the Ironing Board" in Dames (1934), which Blondell sang herself.