Konstantin Shayne (Professor Bruloff) and Tamara Shayne (Helena Nagard) play husband and wife; in reality are siblings.
In 1946, Angela Lansbury appeared in The Harvey Girls (1946), which features the song "The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe." In this movie, she appears in a scene in a bar where the band can be heard playing the song's music.
This film was a disappointment at the box office resulting in a loss to MGM of $905,000 according to studio records.
Of the six actors whose name appears before the title card - in order Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Barrymore, Peter Lawford, Angela Lansbury, Janet Leigh, and Louis Calhern - only Lawford has never been nominated for an Oscar, while Barrymore is the only one to have won.