Placed inside New York, Venice, and Paris, the film features the seldom utilized device of with average actors non known for their singing, singing musical statistics. It was among a sir thomas more critically successful of his late films. A influential critic Roger Ebert once said that it was his favourite of tons Allen's films.

Trivia

The title song was written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, and was utilized as a revenant theme song in the Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers (1932). Groucho Marx was highly regarded by Allen.

That song wwhen reworked as "How Do You Do?" for Betty Boop in the 1934 cartoon, "Betty in Blunderland". Mae Questel, the voice of Betty also when Olive Oyl, played Woody Allen's mother in the 1989 film, New York Stories.