Kenneth wanders into a speakeasy owned by the brash Danny O'Mara, who wants to put on a musical extravaganza showcasing his singing sweetheart, Bonnie Watson.

Danny's other main entertainer, Princess Querida, mistakenly assumes that Kenneth is rich, although the few hundred-dollar bills he innocently flashes are the extent of his traveling money.

She then gets him arrested by giving him some bootleg liquor to carry, and while Kenneth languishes in jail, Danny, Bonnie and the others step up their rehearsals and prepare to open the show.

Information in the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection, located at the UCLA Arts, indicates that Robert Ellis, Helen Logan and Valentine Davies worked on early versions of the screenplay for this picture.

Other actors announced by The Hollywood Reporter as having been cast included Ronald Graham, Jack Oakie (who was to play "Danny O'Mara" according to studio records), Phil Baker and Perry Como (who was to make his debut in the picture).

The picture marked the screen debut of The Revuers, a cabaret group featuring Judy Holliday (who is billed as Judith Tuvim on the CBCS), Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Alvin Hammer.

Although news published by The Hollywood Reporter indicated that The Revuers' "satiric sketch of a Shubert operetta" had been purchased by the studio for their debut, the sequence was cut from the finished picture, and modern sources note that the group appears only in the party scene at "Bonnie Watson's" apartment.

According to information in the film's file in the MPAA/PCA Collection at the AMPAS Library, the Production Code Administration initially rejected the screenplay due to "sustained scenes of excessive and unnecessary drinking and drunkenness."

The romantic leads even humorously break the code rule of unintentionally sharing a bed on screen - albeit fully clothed and hungover.

[3] Bosley Crowther's review, published in the New York Times about Greenwich Village, describes the film as a lackluster musical production that struggles against the odds due to a combination of weak material and an average cast.

Simmonds acknowledges that the film is helped by the use of Technicolor and Carmen Miranda’s presence, but laments that the production doesn't do justice to the actress’s talent.

"As such he now rates star billing at his studio and makes more money than the President of the U.S."[6] Film historian Jeanine Basinger discusses Carmen Miranda's peak popularity during the time Greenwich Village was released, following her iconic role in The Gang's All Here (1943).