A song lyric predicts that [African-Americans] "will be Democrats" instead of Republicans. In 1933, when this film was released, the American Democratic Party was heavily associated with racism. This lyric would come to pass in the decades to come, as more African-Americans would be associated with the Democratic Party, including America's first African-American president, Barack Obama.
Sammy Davis Jr. is billed here as simply "Sammy Davis". His father Sammy Davis Sr. was billed, with the "Sr.", in The Benny Goodman Story (1956) (playing Fletcher Henderson), so from Anna Lucasta (1958) on, Sammy Jr. was billed with the "Jr.".
In 1933, when this film was released, the idea of an African-American man being elected president of the United States was considered implausible. 75 years later, Americans elected the county's first black president, Barack Obama.
Vitaphone production reels #1553-1554.