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A HR production chart adds Leni Lynn to the cast, but her participation in the final film has not been confirmed. Some of the lyrics in the "Tokay" number were dubbed for Jeanette MacDonald by Ann Harriette Lee, who also instructed MacDonald in French accents and pronunciation for the number. The picture was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Color Photography. According to news items in HR in early 1932, Paramount Pictures was planning to film a two-strip Technicolor version of the Noel Coward operetta. The picture was planned as a spring or summer production and was to star Jeanette MacDonald. Although that version was never made, in 1933, Herbert Wilcox directed Anna Neagle in a British version of the operetta. Irene Dunne appeared in a Lux Radio Theatre version of the story on 5 Nov 1936. ...

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A HR production chart adds Leni Lynn to the cast, but her participation in the final film has not been confirmed. Some of the lyrics in the "Tokay" number were dubbed for Jeanette MacDonald by Ann Harriette Lee, who also instructed MacDonald in French accents and pronunciation for the number. The picture was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Color Photography. According to news items in HR in early 1932, Paramount Pictures was planning to film a two-strip Technicolor version of the Noel Coward operetta. The picture was planned as a spring or summer production and was to star Jeanette MacDonald. Although that version was never made, in 1933, Herbert Wilcox directed Anna Neagle in a British version of the operetta. Irene Dunne appeared in a Lux Radio Theatre version of the story on 5 Nov 1936.

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