Agnes de Mille accepted the job of choreographer on this film, primarily so that she could go to London and be closer to her husband, who was stationed in Europe as part of the occupation force. Once she read the script, she hated everything about the movie and clashed with the producer every step of the way. Knowing that the movie would be the failure it ultimately turned out to be, she paid $5000 to have her name removed from the credits.
Although Universal International's projected U.S. distribution of the film was canceled, the labels of two 78-rpm commercial recordings bore this notation: "From the Universal International Picture 'My Heart Goes Crazy'" -- the Decca single, which featured Bing Crosby, accompanied by Russ Morgan and His Orchestra, performing "So Would I" on the A side and "My Heart Goes Crazy" on the flip side (music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Johnny Burke); and the Capitol release of "So Would I," sung by Matt Dennis, with backing by Paul Weston and His Orchestra. The Majestic 78 of "So Would I," featuring Georgia Gibbs with Earle Hagen's Orchestra, carried a label informing: "From the Picture 'My Heart Goes Crazy'" -- without reference to the film studio. In addition, two Columbia 78s were inscribed more simply with this note: "From "'My Heart Goes Crazy'" -- The Modernaires, assisted by Mitchell Ayres
The first feature film of Jerry Desmonde.
The first feature of Susan Shaw.
The music of "London Town" was originally released on five 78-rpm gramophone records in 1946 and is considered Britain's first motion picture soundtrack album.
The September 4, 1946 edition of Variety carried a review of this movie, which had premiered at the Leicester Square Theatre in London on August 28. However, this picture escaped the notice of most contemporary American film critics.
This film was Britain's first major Technicolor musical and also became the most notorious critical and box-office flop of the postwar British cinema and the largest bomb ever for its production company, the famed J. Arthur Rank Organisation.
Universal Pictures, intending to distribute this Technicolored English musical in the United States, previewed the film, retitled "My Heart Goes Crazy," around metropolitan New York City on the evenings of September 10, 11 and 12, 1946. Over five months had elapsed when, on February 27, 1947, Production Code chief Joseph Breen contacted the J. Arthur Rank Organisation's branch office at the recently renamed (on October 1, 1946) Universal International Studios. Mr. Breen objected to a pair of Sid Field comic sketches, which the censor judged to be inappropriately sexual. In addition, he maintained that Production Code guidelines would not permit footage of two women dressed in cleavage-revealing outfits. Universal International, at this juncture, sought to bow out of the distribution arrangement. On April 4, 1947, the Code administration tentatively certified the movie, provided that a Sid Field routine about photography be eliminated. Five months had passed before Mr. Rank notified Code officials on September 10 that his motion picture would not play in U.S. markets. Nearly six years later, the Rank Organisation finally chose United Artists to distribute the picture stateside, beginning on July 22, 1953. The American version, using the title "My Heart