This film was barely successful at the box office, earning MGM a profit of only $12,000 ($209,000 in 2017) according to studio records.
A contemporary reviewer for The Hollywood Reporter was so impressed by Lana Turner's dancing and opined that MGM should pair her with Fred Astaire"...to duplicate the old Astaire-Rogers sizzle".
This was made at the point in Lana Turner's career when she was still being groomed for stardom by M-G-M, and they hadn't yet finalized her "look." In this film (and all of her preceding ones) Turner appeared as a "dish water blonde," but two films later, for Ziegfeld Girl, the studio hairdressing department lightened her hair to platinum blonde, similar to the look of one of their biggest stars of the 1930s, Jean Harlow - and suddenly, Turner rose to stardom.
The film is a remake of The Broadway Melody (1929), starring Bessie Love and Anita Page as the Mahoney sisters and Charlie King as Eddie. This film is the earliest remake of a Best Picture Oscar winner.
The part of the rotund radio host who introduces George Murphy's song-and-dance routine is played by America's best known announcer at the time. Don Wilson spent decades as Jack Benny's straight man and sidekick.
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