The film premiered on January 20, 1936, at the Cinema Alhambra in Rio de Janeiro, and on February 3, 1936, in São Paulo.

Limiting this process to only a few choice scenes, direct live audio can still be heard in the background.

[1] Originally called "O Grande Cassino", the film's inception came from the need to present singers from Brazil's golden age of radio to a larger mass audience.

Set in a pre-television age, the plot focuses on a low-income population which had little, if any, access to entertainment at the nation's Casinos.

In 1986, scenes with comedian Jorge Murad were found in the film library of the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro.