 MGM bought the rights to the Broadway musical "Very Warm For May",  music by Jerome Kern (qv) and book and lyrics by  Oscar Hammerstein II (qv), as the starting point for the film. In  typical Hollywood manner, by the time they were done all the  original songs except "All the Things You Are" had been dropped,  replaced by material from other writers. Three of the original songs  were sung, fragmentarily, by George Murphy (I) (qv) sitting at a  piano waiting for Ginny Simms (qv) to come out. The name of the  original play is also mentioned in passing in one of the scenes.