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; its earliest documented telecast took place in Minneapolis Saturday 19 September 1959 on WTCN (Channel 11); it first aired in Seattle Friday 27 November 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7).