Barbara Eden showed her navel, which she was famously forbidden to do in her television series "I Dream of Jeannie" starting the next year.
James Shigeta and Miyoshi Umeki co-starred in "Flower Drum Song" (1961).
Hop Sing Kelly, the proprietor of the club, was named in honor of Hopp Sing, the Chinese cook on the long-running western, "Bonanza".
The character of Hop Sing Kelly may be a nod to Hop Sing, the Cartwright family's long serving cook in Bonanza (1959).