Some enterprising exhibitors billed the recently married Ava Gardner as "Mrs. Mickey Rooney" on the marquee.
Final appearance of Ernest Morrison (Scruno) as an active member of the East Side Gang. Morrison would later appear in Follow the Leader (1944), but only in a flashback sequence using archive footage from Flying with Music (1942).
Shot in six days.
Supposedly Bela Lugosi "sneezed" a four-letter word ("Oh, shit!"). Actually, he was merely sneezing in Hungarian--"Hapci!" is Hungary's onomatopoeia for "atchoo."