William Powell and Jean Arthur also co-starred in another murder mystery movie, The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936), with Powell playing a different private detective.
One of the earliest 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 MCA ever since. Because of its age, and its primitive sound recording techniques, which 1950s sponsors considered a viewing deterrent, it was only rarely taken off the shelf, but interest in the author of the original story and the still relevant members of the cast overcame such obstacles in a few locations; its earliest documented telecast took place in Charlotte NC Friday 11 December 1959 on WSOC (Channel 9); in Boston it first aired 16 April 1960 on WBZ (Channel 4), in St. Louis 14 November 1960 on KMOX (Channel 4), in Los Angeles 3 March 1961 on KNXT (Channel 2), in Chicago 10 July 1961 on WBBM (Channel 2), in New York City 21 August 1961 on WCBS (Channel 2), and in Wheeling, West Virginia, 15 November 1961 on WTRF (Channel 7).
Jean Arthur was born Gladys Georgianna Greene and the title of the movie adopts the spelling of Green that matches her name: "Greene"
Veda Buckland's debut.