 When the film premiered at the Radio City Music Hall there was then  the largest line to get in, in that theaters history. After the  films initial success, Arthur Freed (qv), the producer of this  film, recalled that his unit was in the MGM commissary passing the  Joe Pasternak (qv) unit (which made less expensive musicals), the  Pasternak unit said, "There goes the royal family." Indeed, this  picture was at the time the second largest