Debut theatrical feature film of television actor Victor Holchak who portrayed Howard Hughes. The picture remains his first, final and only ever big screen acting role.
One of two back-to-back consecutive motion pictures of writer-director Larry Buchanan which were about a Hollywood blond bombshell. The first was Goodbye, Norma Jean (1976) about Marilyn Monroe and the second was Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell (1977) about Jean Harlow.
''Howard Hughes did not discover Harlow [Jean Harlow]on the set of Double Whoopee (1929). She was recommended to him by Hell's Angels (1930)'s lead James Hall'' according to a review of Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell (1977) at 'The Biopic Story'.
Although initial color tests of Jean Harlow for Hell's Angels (1930) were shot by Howard Estabrook, the grand ballroom Technicolor sequence, which ended up in the film, was shot by Ray Rennahan and runs 866 feet which is approximately one 35mm film reel.