Those uniforms. When I was working with that Gance film at RCMH in ‘81, I was presented with a set of brass buttons from the RCMH 1940s uniforms.
Had them, for a while, on a lovely double breasted blazer - which somehow shrank. Need a new configuration.
From Henry Koster, one of the filmmakers who hit just about every genre during his career, came a domestic musical, based upon the Rogers & Hammerstein theatrical experience, with an almost entirely Asian cast.
This was also Mr. Koster's first outing with that new fangled anamorphic process...