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After the film had been pulled from theatres due to poor tickets sales, Peter Bogdanovich wrote an open letter, printed in newspapers throughout the country, apologizing for the quality of the film.

This was the first movie musical since the early 1930s to have its musical numbers recorded directly while being sung rather than having the cast lip-synch to a previously recorded score, the innovation of Douglas Shearer that revolutionized the production of musicals in the era of the early talkies. There was no technical reason for the music to be recorded directly, and it is one of the reasons that the picture is considered to have failed. Critics attacked director Peter Bogdanovich for his hubris for what they considered an extremely ill-advised stunt, seeing how his leads (with the exception of trained singer Madeline Kahn) were little known for their musical abilities.

This was the first film that Burt Reynolds made with director Peter Bogdanovich. The second (and last) would be Nickelodeon.

This movie was amusingly dubbed "The Man Who Loved Tap Dancing" - a play on words of the title of the Burt Reynolds movie made two years earlier entitled The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing.

This movie apparently was never released on video-cassette.

Sixteen original Cole Porter songs were utilized for this musical film.

This movie's title At Long Last Love is taken from one of the Cole Porter songs of the same name. The song 'At Long Last Love' was written by Porter for his 1938 musical, 'You Never Know'.

This movie musical pays tribute to the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s such as Top Hat and Swing Time.

A top hat is a significant symbol on this movie's main poster thereby evoking the 1930s musical film Top Hat.

The art & set direction / production design of this film is evocative of the 1930s style and kind as created by art director and production designer Van Nest Polglase.

Burt Reynolds just prior to this film had starred in a movie called Hustle. Many years after this picture was made, its director Peter Bogdanovich directed a film called Hustle.

One of the songs in this movie is not a Cole Porter song.

The tagline "IT'S THE TOP!" from this movie's main poster is actually derived from one of Cole Porter's song titles, "You're the Top". The tagline also evokes the earlier musical, Top Hat.

'Halliwell''s has described this film as "An attempt to recapture the simple pleasures of an Astaire-Rogers musical" [See: Fred Astaire ; Ginger Rogers.

This movie is often not included in various video and DVD guides, not surprising considering its widespread unavailability on home video since the film was first released theatrically in 1975.

This movies initial box-office had total receipts at about one quarter of its budget. This movie made about US $1.5 million but cost US $6 million.

Burt Reynolds once said of this movie: "I think we bombed".