Based on a hit 1941 Cole Porter Broadway musical starring Danny Kaye and Eve Arden. Eve repeated her role as Maggie but Bob Hope replaced Danny. In the original Broadway production, one of the three wives, Mrs. Collister (Phyllis Povah in the movie) was played by Vivian Vance (Ethel from "I Love Lucy").
Referenced in the song, "Put it there, Pal" from "The Road to Utopia."
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 Boston Thursday 29 January 1959 on WBZ (Channel 4), and in Phoenix Thursday 19 February 1959 on KVAR (Channel 12), followed by Seattle 14 September 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7), by Denver 9 November 1959 on KBTV (Channel 9), by Omaha 11 November 1959 on KETV (Channel 7), by Chicago 3 December 1959 on WBBM (Channel 2), by Milwaukee 15 December 1959 on WITI (Channel 6), by Grand Rapids 25 December 1959 on WOOD (Channel 8), by Philadelphia 7 May 1960 on WCAU (Channel 10), and by New York City 16 July 1960 on WCBS (Channel 2).
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on December 27, 1943 with Bob Hope reprising his film role.
Miriam Nelson's debut.
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