When shooting the snake shot a real trained cobra was used. Miss Lamour explained how terrified she was especially when they had to repeat the scene because in the first take the snake began to change its skin. She had a bad time too when riding elephants and recalls only female elephants were used due to males' toughness (a similar thing happened in most of her jungle movies with monkeys so they ended using female monkeys only).
In the film miss Lamour appears in a white sunsuit. Since the studio foreign department argued that this would have been considered indecent in the real Burma director Louis King solved the situation making natives appear shocked by the suit.
According to miss Lamour book, there was a bit of confusion in the studio due to similar names of actors Robert Preston and Preston Foster, especially when someone called for Press. She recalls how some guy put a phony memo in Paramount stationary announcing a new film "starring Robert Preston, Preston Foster and Susanna Foster written and directed by Preston Sturges with dialogue by Lewis Foster and music by Stephen C. Foster".
During the filming of this movie miss Lamour received a card filled by a Chicago radio station when she did her first audition. It read: Name: Lambour, Mary Reta. Description: brunette, slender, fairly good-looking. Talent: auditioned as a singer. Remarks: Not recommended. Bad style as a singer. Didn't even try as an actress. Doubtful prospect.
Dorothy recalled how happy she was not having read that note until she had already done seventeen pictures.
As she recalls in her memories book myside of the road, miss Lamour had a haircut for this movie since she was no longer to play a jungle native but a night club singer. She was happy to left that uncomfortable long her down and willing to have her new look but frightened to ask Paramount studios' director Frank Freeman permission to do it. When she phoned him he replied that probably she was asking him after she had already done it (which she only half had) and quickly sent a photographer to immortalize the moment, being announced as "The 10 million dollar haircut".