With this project of such high quality of song material and collaborators, he was to describe the album in his autobiography as his "all time favorite record".

[3] Johnny Mandel was the musical director, and he and Neal Hefti and Quincy Jones arranged and conducted their own compositions on the album.

26[5] On November 8, 2011, Sony Music Distribution included the CD in a box set entitled The Complete Collection.

[6] William Ruhlmann of AllMusic wrote "he devoted himself exclusively to movie themes, everything from 'The Trolley Song (Meet Me in St. Louis)' to 'Days of Wine and Roses'.

[2] Billboard described the album as "a guaranteed chartbusting LP", saying "Outstanding movie songs are given exceptional Bennett vocals"[9] Record Mirror said "it's tremendously warm, swinging, sentimental, sensitive".