Much fun is poked at Frank Sinatra's ultra-thin appearance. Sinatra, in fact, was known as the skinny kid from Hoboken in his early days, but audiences still swooned at his crooning.
The original working title was Smellbound.
Originally there was to be a scene where the skunk imitated Bing Crosby to swoon the girls; for unknown reasons, it was switched to Frank Sinatra.
The book 'Advice to the Love-Worn' by Beatrice Bare Fax is a take-off of a newspaper column that began in 1898 called 'Advice to the Lovelorn', which answered questions from readers. The column was written under the pseudonym 'Beatrice Fairfax'.