Filming was already under way as a black-and-white feature when studio chief Harry Cohn, encouraged by the scenes already filmed, decided to start the project all over as a Technicolor production. Cohn was impressed by director Joseph H. Lewis's handling of the musical numbers in the 1944 PRC feature Minstrel Man, and hired Lewis to stage the musical sequences for the Jolson project.
Filming was already under way as a black-and-white feature when studio chief Harry Cohn encouraged by the scenes already filmed decided to start the project all over as a Technicolor production Cohn was impressed by director Joseph H Lewis's handling of the musical numbers in the 1944 PRC feature Minstrel Man and hired Lewis to stage the musical sequences for the Jolson project