 A further four minutes were cut before its premiere at the Radio City Music Hall, where it broke all records, went on to gross $3 million on its initial release, and became RKO's most profitable film of the 1930s.After "Mutiny on the Bounty", it made more money than any other film released in 1935.Dwight Taylor was the principal screenwriter in this, the first screenplay written specially for Astaire and Rogers.