This movie provides a rare opportunity to see three of the most influential Hollywood columnists active at the time. Sheilah Graham, Hedda Hopper and Jimmy Starr all appear as themselves in the press conference / party scene at the house.
In the movie, Kay Kyser mentions having come from Rocky Mount, North Carolina. That was his real home town, and also the birthplace of modern jazz musician Thelonious Monk.
The studio's name is Four Star. Coincidentally, that was the name of the production company formed in 1952 by Dick Powell, David Niven, Charles Boyer and Ida Lupino (who replaced Joel McCrea), though they worked solely in television.
The screenwriters in this film, Tom Village and Dwight Cook, were supposedly modeled after C. Graham Baker and Gene Towne who were working at RKO at the time.