Multiple references to 'carloadings' being up, meaning an increase in the total amount of goods shipped by railroad. Back before stores and other businesses reported total monthly sales, carloadings was the best available measure of consumer spending.
The dramatic scene in which Dick Powell mistakenly announces the death of one of the show's backers backstage on opening night was later re-enacted in real life when the cast of the 1981 Broadway compilation musical 42nd Street (the song score for which was made up of melodies from multiple early 1930s Warner movie musicals) were told that Gower Champion had died earlier on opening night. For his work on 42nd Street, Champion was later awarded a posthumous Tony Award for Best Choreography.
The song "Hush Mah Mouth" by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg was written for the picture but not used in the final print.
Many actors listed in studio records as appearing in this film are not seen in the final print. These are, with their character names: George Beranger (Pawnshop Proprietor), Antonio Filauri (Chef), Harrison Greene (Creditor), Gordon Hart (White), Max Hoffman Jr. (Salesman), Selmer Jackson (Speculator), Frances Morris (Hospital Telephone Operator), Jack Mower (Bartender), Cliff Saum (Conductor), George Sorel (Costumer) and Bobby Watson (Salesman).
Final film of Marguerite Caverley.
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