Trivia

The year she made this, Doris Day also made her first appearance in the Quigley Top 25 Box Office Stars poll, placing at #24. She would remain on the list every year until she retired from making movies in 1968, and was ranked #1 four times in the early 1960s.

This was the first time James Cagney and Doris Day appeared in the same film. Five years later, they would co-star in Les pièges de la passion (1955), one of the best musical biopics ever made. Day would garner some of the best reviews of her career (and also top the Billboard Charts with her soundtrack album) while Cagney would be Oscar nominated for Best Actor.

By 1950, James Cagney hadn't made a musical in nearly a decade. On the heels of L'enfer est à lui (1949), Warner Bros. combined both of his screen images in a humorous vein, and Cagney throws as many punches in The West Point Story (1950) as he did in any of his gangster flicks.

This movie again teams James Cagney with Virginia Mayo, who played his leading lady in L'enfer est à lui (1949).

The only one of Doris Day's Warner Bros. musicals that was not issued as a soundtrack album.