 The Gershwin family strongly disapproved of this version; they felt  that producer Samuel Goldwyn (qv) had glamorized and  "Hollywoodized" it too much, and that he had made a mistake in  firing the films original director, Rouben Mamoulian (qv)  (director of the original stage version in 1935). The film was  withdrawn from release in 1974. The only place it can be seen now is  in film archives.