Shelley Winters is most easily spotted as one of Adele Jergens' blonde handmaidens, standing in the background at the aborted wedding scene.
Phil Silvers wears his horn rim glasses throughout the film even though they were an anachronism. He was so near-sighted that he was unable to function without them. In later years he often wore contact lenses.
This film provides documentary evidence that the word "groovy" was already in use in American English vernacular and reasonably well understood by most Americans at least as early as 1942. Tommy Dorsey says it to Red Skelton.
This motion picture is inspired by the novel 'A Thousand and One Nights' written by an unknown author around 1450 AD.
Rex Ingram makes a brief appearance as a giant genie in the cave and is dressed and made up to look exactly like the genie he'd played five years earlier in The Thief of Bagdad (1940). He does not come out of a lamp or a bottle in this film, though, but just resides in the cave.