The campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was extensively used as a stand-in for Alden College. The original 18th century Alden College school house was placed just east of Powell Library. (An imaginary tower and other buildings were matte-painted in the background to make the campus appear more built-up.)
Hollywood, Jan. 27, 1937 United Press story: John Payne and Martha Raye both limped today as a result of a movie-set accident. Payne was supposed to pick up the wide-mouthed actress for a scene in "College Swing." He slipped and fell with her. Payne was barefooted and had one of his toe nails jerked off. Miss Raye suffered a sprained ankle.
One of over seven hundred Paramount Pictures productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. It was released on DVD March 5, 2002 in tandem with The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) as part of the Bob Hope Tribute Collection, and again as a single October 30, 2015 as part of the Universal Vault Series.
Hubert Dash (Edward Everett Horton) arrives at Alden College in a 1937 Lincoln Model K Limousine.
Bob Hope and George Burns were both centenarians when they died and were comedians.