 It took the place of Frank Loesser's "(I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China," which the Hays Office thought inappropriate.According to MGM records the film was a big hit and earned $3,477,000 in the US and Canada and $2,296,000 overseas, resulting in profit of $1,473,000.A 1949 "New York Times" review of the film called it a "great big beautiful musical, full of slickness and Technicolored plush, models and Xavier Cugat rhythm."