Average Shot Length (ASL) = 10 seconds

In the nightclub, when Jayne Mansfield is ready to go on stage, there is a chorus girl in the background Abbey Lincoln) who is wearing a costume that was previously worn by Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Producers wanted Elvis Presley to perform in the movie, but Tom Parker demanded too much money for Elvis to sing one song.

Production began on the film in mid-September 1956 just as Jayne Mansfield was finishing up her Broadway triumph in the play "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" The film was made just in time to be released for the Christmas season in 1956.

Some reference sources and websites erroneously suggest that Bill Haley and the Comets appear in this film. They do not.



The wedding dress that Jayne Mansfield wears was loaned to her to use for her real-life marriage to Mickey Hargitay in 1958.

This was the first of two comedies that Frank Tashlin adapted the screenplay for and directed which starred Jayne Mansfield, the other being Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? . Tashlin once said, "There's nothing in the world to me that's funnier than big breasts."


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