It was one of several films the British producer/director made with Anna Neagle (whom he married in 1943) for RKO studios in the U.S.[2] Personable Nanette helps her philandering millionaire uncle Jimmy out of several embarrassing situations with beautiful women he's promised careers to; and in the process, Nanette becomes romantically involved with both a musical comedy producer, and a young artist.

That's an elementary show business lesson taught in a class that producer Herbert Wilcox must have skipped.

In making a film version of the 1925 Broadway hit ... Wilcox saves all the book but very little of the music.

'Tea for Two' and 'I Want to Be Happy', as well as the title tune, 'No, No, Nanette' have been reduced to virtually incidental music.

Wilcox has been lavish, however, in instilling production values in Nanette and there's no denying, despite their age, the lilt of the Vincent Youmans tunes.