Following the end of World War 2, Francis Amberton moved Halfpenny Pictures into the now-defunct airplane hangars at Halfpenny Green Airfield and wanted to show off the new studio space by producing musicals that involved large-scale Busby Berkeley-inspired dance numbers. Amberton tapped accomplished Broadway dancers and then-newlywed couple Gower and Marge Champion to star in the first of these films: Dancing Delancey. The story of the lead actor in a stage musical being mistaken for the director and using his mistaken identity to woo an aspiring starlet (who, unbeknownst to him, is already betrothed), Dancing Delancey played up the fact that its two leads were married in all of its marketing in a bid to get around Hays Code restrictions surrounding infidelity. The Champions credit this film as helping them launch their career in motion pictures, and Gower was particularly happy for the opportunity to work as a dancer again having just gotten back from serving with the U.S. Coast Guard in World War 2 only three years prior.
