Although only lightly reviewed at the time of its release, the film has garnered a generally positive reputation among Garland biographers.

Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland were both under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer but the studio had not put them to work in films.

Composers Con Conrad and Herb Magidson wrote a specialty number for Garland, "The Americana.

[4] As a short film that served as a programmer, Every Sunday received scant critical attention upon its release.

Durbin's hometown newspaper, the Winnipeg Free Press, did praise the film, lamenting that it was "all too short" and citing Garland as a "girl singer of distinction.