Too bad this film wasn't in color.
By the look of the costumes worn by Lucille Ball and Virginia Field it is a disappointment that this film was not shot in color. I looked up the costumer designer, Edward Stevenson, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0828926/; someone I have not heard about before. To my amazement he has a long list of well known vehicles where he was the costumer designer, gowns his specialty. He worked with BOTH Maureen O'Hara and Lucille Ball many times. He made over a dozen films that starred Maureen O'Hara and spent the last 15 or so years of his career working for Lucille Ball in television.
Even though this film wasn't in color, and in hindsight we know the true colors all their eyes, all the posts regarding the bit about Louis Hayward's character not liking girls with blue eyes are actually moot in my opinion. I think he was immediately mesmerized by Maureen O'Hara's character and NOT Lucille Ball's and his comment about their eye color was to strengthen the point.