"On Your Toes" was adapted from a Broadway musical that opened at the Imperial Theater in New York on April 11, 1936 and ran for 315 performances. Ray Bolger starred in the original stage production. The musical was revived on Broadway in 1954 and 1983.
Several people in studio records/casting call lists as cast members did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names): Tommy Bupp (Boy) and Nat Carr, Billy Wayne, Bert Hanlon and Frank Orth (Vaudevillians)
This film's earliest documented telecast took place in Tucson Monday 27 August 1956 on KDWI (Channel 9); it first aired in Albuquerque Sunday 16 September 1956 on KOAT (Channel 7), in Boston Wednesday 19 September 1956 on WBZ (Channel 4), in San Francisco Wednesday 3 October 1956 on KPIX (Channel 5), in New York City Sunday 4 November 1956 on WABD (Channel 5), in Sacramento CA Thursday 22 November 1956 on KBET (Channel 10), and in Indianapolis Tuesday 18 December 1956 on WTTV (Channel 4).
Other than a few clunky dance steps, most of Eddie Albert's dancing in the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" number was done by a dance double.
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