In one scene, Starbuck (played by Oscar Levant) is shown reading a book. We see from the cover that it says 'A Smattering of Ignorance', by Oscar Levant. He puts the book down, and says, "Very irritating book."
There is a shot in the trailer of the two stars, Bing Crosby and Mary Martin, working together on some music. It does not appear in the final film.
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 Charlotte Wednesday 29 July 1959 on WSOC (Channel 9), in Minneapolis Sunday 2 August 1959 on WTCN (Channel 11) and in Seattle Friday 25 September 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7); it was released on DVD 6 May 2003 in tandem with Rhythm on the Range (1936) as part of Universal's Bing Crosby Collection, and again 11 November 2014 as one of 24 titles in Universal's Bing Crosby Silver Screen Collection.
Throughout the movie, the song "Goodbye to Love" is mentioned, but no lyrics or melody are heard at all. In the liner notes to the "The Singles" album, this non-existent song is revealed to be the inspiration for The Carpenters' song "Goodbye to Love", written by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis.
The picture that appears on the video box cover with Mary Martin playing the guitar does not appear in the final film.
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