This modest (by MGM standards) black-and-white musical failed to be noted by a contemporary New York Times review. In addition, this was the only monochrome song-and-dance picture in which Debbie Reynolds and Bob Fosse appeared.
Barbara Ruick was married to composer John Williams, who composed the score for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), which marked a breakout role for Debbie Reynolds's daughter Carrie Fisher.
Lurene Tuttle plays the mother of Debbie Reynolds, as she does in Give a Girl a Break (1953). In real life, she was the mother of costar Barbara Ruick.
Kathleen Freeman returned to the Dobie Gillis franchise in the reunion movie Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis (1988).
At a couple of points in the movie, Dobie and Pansy duet on "All I Do is Dream of You." Debbie Reynolds (Pansy) sang the same number with chorus girls in Singin' in the Rain (1952).