George Arliss and Ivan F. Simpson played the same roles ten years earlier in the 1922 silent version.
This was the first movie Bette Davis made under her contract to Warner Bros., the studio under which she did most of her best-known work of the 1930s and '40s. Her earlier six films were made for various studios, all of which let her go.
George Arliss was nearly 40 years older than Bette Davis, who plays his fiancée in this movie.
This was the second screen version of this material. The first was a 1922 silent film, also starring George Arliss. It was remade again as Sincerely Yours (1955), the one and only movie ever to feature popular TV pianist Liberace in a starring role.