"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onOctober 21, 1940 with Alice Faye reprising her film role.
"The Last Rose of Summer" (a traditional Irish folk song), sung by Alice Faye, was cut from the movie.
After the huge success of The Great Ziegfeld MGM wanted to make a movie of Lillian Russell starring Jeanette MacDonald, but that project fell through. Twentieth Century Fox then decided to make a movie about Russell.