When Ned (Fred Allen) says to Eric (Dick Powell), "Up in Washington, they elected a jazz band leader Lieutenant Governor, and if people will vote for a jazz band leader, they'll vote for anybody," Lieutenant Governor Victor Meyers of Washington State (an ex-band leader) sued Twentieth Century-Fox for $250,000. He claimed it reflected on his qualifications and deprived him of the "confidence, respect and good will of the people." No information has been found on the result of the suit.
Victor Meyers, then-Lt. Governor of the state of Washington and the reputed basis for this fictional account of politicking, visited the set during the making of this movie and even joked with Dick Powell that should he ever give up show business he could have a career in politics. The joking apparently stopped two years later when Meyers, who had been a jazz-band leader in Seattle, sued the producers for $250,000 in 1937 for the comment Fred Allen makes about anybody being able to get elected if a jazz-band leader in Washington can get elected. Eventually, the lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice (i.e. Meyers could not sue the producers again for this action), leading many to suggest that Meyers was joking all along.
The first film produced under the 20th Century Fox banner after the merger of Fox Film Corporation and 20th Century Pictures.
The last film from Fox with the 1922 MPPDA logo.
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