The supporting cast features Andy Devine, Alan Mowbray, Gale Sondergaard, Sig Ruman and Monty Woolley.

He dumps his fiancée, Juno Marko, while he is at the Swiss spa of Bad Gaswasser, there he meets a young Texas heiress, Mickey Hawkins.

Mickey has been betrothed to the fortune-hunting Prince Smirnov, but is in love with Henry Munch, a bus driver from back home.

The experiment takes an unexpected turn when a bear scares off John and Henry and Mickey ends up enthusiastically kissing the animal.

Cast notes: "The Tra La La and the Oom Pah Pah" - by Ralph Rainger (music) and Leo Robin (lyrics)[7] Never Say Die was originally slated to star Jack Benny and Franciska Gaal, under the direction of Raoul Walsh and produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr.[8] The film was in production from early October to early December 1938, and premiered in New York on 9 March 1939.