Convention City - Production

Production

During production the film had MPPDA censorship problems. Jack Warner warned Hal Wallis that he may be going too far in the costuming:

"We must put brassieres on Joan Blondell and make her cover up her breasts because, otherwise, we are going to have these pictures stopped in a lot of places. I believe in showing their forms but, for Lord's sake, don't let those bulbs stick out."

In addition, several lines were ordered to be removed by the MPPDA censors including:

"No, but it won't be marriage. I'll guarantee you that. A traveling salesman needs a wife like a baby needs a box of matches."

"Now you take off that dress and I'll take off my toupee, huh!"

"Girl's voice: 'Listen, sister, if they tire you, you better leave town before the Hercules Tool Company gets here.'"

Script changes, suggested by Wingate, Jason S. Joy (director of the Studio Relations Committee), and production head Hal Wallis were nominally incorporated into the script.

The feature cost $239,000 to produce, and earned $384,000 in domestic revenue and $138,000 from foreign release, for an eventual profit of $53,000.