Of Jessie Matthews in this film: Roger Phillip Mellor, in the Encyclopedia of British Cinema, notes " ...the image of her in Sailing Along (d. Hale, 1938), in a white evening gown, with a gentleman's black top hat and walking cane, performing 'Souvenir of Love' in Lime Grove's art deco luxury sets, indelibly incarnates 1930s style."
In his 1965 book "Sterren Kijken", Simon van Collem recounts and interview with Jessie Matthews in which it was disclosed that the British Ministy of War ordered all copies of the film Sailing Along to be destroyed in 1939, fearing that the Germans could use the footage of Greenwich and Windsor Castle as seen in the film for their bombing raids. The Ministry did not take into account that Germany already owned 15 copies of their own, and more copies of the film had been distributed to several countries that were already being occupied by Germany at that time.
