Co-stars Yvonne De Carlo and Miiko Taka do not make their initial appearances until the final twenty minutes of the film, and both scenes amount to little more than cameos.
Yvonne De Carlo was 42 years old at the time of the filming of her rigorous flamenco number.
Owing primarily to its unusual setting and subject matter, A Global Affair (1964) doubtlessly features the most diverse cast of any American film of the golden era, decades before the birth of the multiculturalism movement.
Although it was screened in a London cinema for a brief engagement in the late Spring of 1964, this Bob Hope comedy had to wait nearly two years to get a general release in Britain, and was then shown in the lower half of a double-bill with "The Singing Nun".