The main characters, George and Liz Cugat, were later adapted into the husband-and-wife comedy radio series "My Favorite Husband" starring Lucille Ball and Richard Denning. Both the radio plays and the movie were based on a novel by Isabel Scott Rorick.
The title of Ms Rorick's book was "Mr & Mrs Cugat". Xavier Cugat thought this would negatively affect his career so he initiated legal proceedings against Columbia Pictures. Detrimental segments were deleted from the script, Cugie was paid $80,000 for the use of his name and the title was changed to "Are Husbands Necessary?" See Cugie's autobiography, "Rumba is My Life", p.187.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. It was first telecast in Philadelphia Wednesday 7 January 1959 on WCAU (Channel 10) followed by New York City 28 January 1959 on WCBS (Channel 2); it first aired in Omaha 2 June 1959 on KETV (Channel 7), in Phoenix 14 July 1959 on KVAR (Channel 12), in Denver 15 July 1959 on KBTV (Channel 9), in in Detroit 29 October on WJBK (Channel 2), in Grand Rapids 18 November 1959 on WOOD (Channel 8), and in Toledo 19 January 1960 on WTOL (Channel 11).