Although it was filmed in 2-strip Technicolor, 35MM surviving material is in black & white, but UCLA holdings include a 16MM color print. Two songs by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler, "I Love a Parade" and "Temporarily Blue," were cut before release, although "I Love A Parade" is heard over the opening and closing credits. "I'm Happy When You're Jealous" by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby was also cut before release.
First film from Warner Bros. using the new and improved two-strip Technicolor film that had a finer grain and better clarity than the original. It was first used for RKO's The Runaround (1931).
First feature film for the vaudeville comedy team of Smith & Dale (Joe Smith and Charles Dale). They began their film career in twelve previous shorts at Paramount, starting with False Alarm Fire Co. (1929). They would appear together in a total of 70 shorts, features, and television programs from 1924 to 1967.
Ethel Griffies as Mrs. Beacon is in studio records/casting call lists as a cast member, but she did not appear or was not identifiable in the movie.
Based on the Broadway play "She Means Business" that opened at the Ritz Theatre (Walter Kerr Theatre since 1990), 219 W. 48th St., on January 6, 1931 and ran for only eight performances.