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 telecast took place in Boston Sunday 23 November 1958 on WBZ (Channel 4); it first aired in Seattle Thursday 20 August 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7).