Some aspects of the movie conflicted with the real life happenings of Eugene Allen; the inspiration for the character Cecil Gaines. In the movie, Gaines was caught stealing cake from a hotel, got hired as a waiter at the same hotel and later impressed a White House administrator who happened to be there. In real life, Allen just applied for the job and got it. Gaines' sons were depicted as one having died in Vietnam and the other joining the Black Panthers. In real life, Allen's son who went to Vietnam survived and went on to work for the State Department. The affair by his alcoholic wife was also made up for the movie.
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This was Sonja Henie's final Hollywood feature. Of her 11 vehicles issued between 1936 and 1948, only this film missed out on a review in The New York Times. Miss Henie would return to the screen one last time in a British production shot in color and CinemaScope, Hello London (1960), which was not released in the United States. Sonja's home studio for nine pictures between 1936 and 1943, Twentieth Century-Fox, handled the English distribution of her film finale.
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Susanna Foster declined to portray Jenny Johnsen, the maid. Reportedly, Miss Foster quipped that top-billed Sonja Henie ought to be playing HER maid. Olga San Juan replaced her as she had also done in "One Touch of Venus."
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Universal-International originally planned to film in Technicolor.
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