"Professional Sweetheart" was Ginger Rogers' first film for RKO and - ironically, since so much of the plot revolves around getting Rogers' character to sign a radio contract - she had not yet signed a long-term contract with RKO when she made this film. She would sign a contract with the studio later in the year, just before making Flying Down to Rio (1933), her first film with Fred Astaire.
An early mention of television by the radio announcer in this film from 1933.
Working titles were "Careless" and then "The Purity Girl".