According to cinematographer Lee Garmes, "I directed about 60 to 70 percent of the picture; we'd start at 9 a.m. and some days Hecht [Ben Hecht] was there, some days MacArthur [Charles MacArthur]; they'd start working on the picture at 11 a.m.! So they relied on me. They set the style of how they wanted the dialogue done, and I would direct the whole physical side of it."
This marked the film debut (at 16 years of age) of Margo, and also the film debuts of actresses Esther Dale and Whitney Bourne.
One of the few films of the 1930s in which most of the credits are shown at the end.
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Its initial television presentation took place in Chicago Sunday 11 January 1959 on WBBM (Channel 2). In Philadelphia it was first telecast Monday 26 October 1959 on WCAU (Channel 10), in Los Angeles 15 January 1960 on KNXT (Channel 2), in San Francisco 11 March 1960 on KPIX (Channel 5), in Grand Rapids 16 March 1960 on WOOD (Channel 8), in St. Louis 18 April 1960 on KMOX (Channel 4), and in New York City 16 May 1960 on WCBS (Channel 2).
In the opening sequences, three women playing the Furies fly out of a pool of blood in sexy negligees showing much of their private parts. The Hays Code removed the sequence, and It was shown again only 50 years later. The sequence can be viewed on YouTube.