The year she made this, Doris Day also made her first appearance in the Quigley Top 25 Box Office Stars poll, placing at #24. She would remain on the list every year until she retired from making movies in 1968, and was ranked #1 four times in the early 1960s.
This was the first time James Cagney and Doris Day appeared in the same film. Five years later, they would co-star in Love Me or Leave Me (1955), one of the best musical biopics ever made. Day would garner some of the best reviews of her career (and also top the Billboard Charts with her soundtrack album) while Cagney would be Oscar nominated for Best Actor.
By 1950, James Cagney hadn't made a musical in nearly a decade. On the heels of White Heat (1949), Warner Bros. combined both of his screen images in a humorous vein, and Cagney throws as many punches in The West Point Story (1950) as he did in any of his gangster flicks.
This movie again teams James Cagney with Virginia Mayo, who played his leading lady in White Heat (1949).