Trivia

The film was inspired by the popular thirty-minute morning radio program "Breakfast in Hollywood", created, and hosted by Tom Breneman and broadcast from 1941 to 1948 on three different radio networks: NBC, ABC and Mutual. After Breneman died in April 1948, other hosts, including Garry Moore, stepped in as replacements, but without Breneman the ratings dropped, and the program came to an end in January 1949.

At the peak of its popularity, the radio version of "Breakfast in Hollywood" was estimated to reach a daily audience of ten million listeners.

Nana Bryant appears as a lady at the bus station,

Alice Cooper, Gary Cooper's mother; Anna Le Seur, Joan Crawford's mother; and Ida Breneman, Tom Breneman's mother, appear in the film as themselves.

This film provides a rare opportunity to see two of the most entertaining acts of the 1940s, each performing two musical numbers on camera. The Nat 'King' Cole Trio swings through both "Solid Potato Salad" and the jivey nonsense song "It's Better to Be By Yourself." Spike Jones and His City Slickers pay musical tribute to "Hedda Hopper's Hats," and later perform one of their signature tunes, the jokes and sound effects-laden wacky take on "Glow Worm."