This film was first telecast on New York City's pioneer television station W2XBS Saturday 20 January 1940. It is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-46. It first aired in Cincinnati Thursday 31 August 1949 on WCPO (Channel 7) , in Salt Lake City Sunday 30 October 1949 on KDYL (Channel 4), in Chicago Sunday 5 March 1950 on WGN (Channel 9), and in Philadelphia Tuesday 27 June 1950 on WCAU (Channel 10).
Titles of the unused Irving Berlin songs are: "It's Yours"; "What a Lucky Break for Me"; "They're Going Down (Brokers' and Customers' Song)"--which was rewritten as "Wedding and Crash"; "If You Believe"--a revised version was sung by Johnnie Ray in There's No Business Like Show Business (1954); "The Little Things in Life"--provided hit records in early 1931 for Gus Arnheim and His Cocoanut Orchestra (vocal by Bing Crosby) on Victor, and Ted Wallace and His Campus Boys (vocal by Dick Dickson) on Columbia; "A Toast to Prohibition"; "You've Gotta Do Right by Me" and "(I Ask You) Is That Nice?"
Irving Berlin walked off the production and returned to Manhattan after arguing with writer-director Edmund Goulding over the movie's concept. In later years Berlin, who had received story credit, would angrily condemn the film as released.
In the preview print, either five or six Irving Berlin songs were performed, with Douglas Fairbanks reportedly singing one tune.
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