It is the fourth all-sound, all-color feature film made, and it was photographed in the Technicolor process.

It was the sixth feature film to contain color that had been released by Warner Bros.; the first five were The Desert Song (1929), On with the Show!

[2] Marilyn Miller, who had played the leading part in the Broadway production, was hired by Warner Bros. for an extravagant sum (reportedly $1,000 per hour for a total of $100,000) to star in the film.

When Pops Stendorff discovers that Sally is missing, he crashes the party, intending to take her back to the inn for a performance.

Sally's manager presents her with a contract to star in Ziegfeld's next follies show on Broadway.

After a successful opening night, Sally is visited in her dressing room by Pop Stendorff with flowers and a card from Blair, who has ended his engagement with Marcia.

However, the film survives only in black and white with a 21⁄2-minute color segment from the "Wild Rose" musical number, which was discovered in the 1990s.

Sepia-toned black-and-white footage has been inserted to replace frames missing in the color fragment.