Among the four top-billed stars in the film, Joan Blondell and Lee Bowman would both die on Christmas Day 1979, respectively at ages 73 and 64; a third co-star, Charles Ruggles, had died two days before Christmas in 1970 at age 84, and a week after the Christmas eight years before that, on January 2, 1963, Dick Powell had died at age 58.
The only film that includes in its cast both Joan Blondell and her younger sister Gloria Blondell. Gloria was Walt Disney's original voice of Daisy Duck. Adding to the fowl play, another member of the cast also provided the voice for a cartoon bird, Grace Stafford who was cast by her second husband Walter Lantz to become the longest-running voice of Woody Woodpecker to date, from 1950 to 1991. Another actor in the cast who provided classic Disney voices was Billy Gilbert, who was Sneezy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) as well as Willie the Giant in Mickey and the Beanstalk (1947).
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on
May 19, 1941 with Joan Blondell and Dick Powell reprising their film roles.