Filmed in 1933, but not released until January 1934, narrowly escaping the menacing slash of the Production Code.
Famed columnist Sidney Skolsky has a brief scene emerging from a telephone booth and conversing with Ned Sparks, who calls him "Skolsky".
Brad's contract salary of $15,000 per year would equate to about $290,000 per year in 2018.
The Song "Hi Nellie" was written for the movie, since the published sheet music has pictures of Paul Muni and Glenda Farrell on its cover. It was not sung, but probably was played at the Merry Go Round Club.
Despite the movie having been made in Burbank, California, "Houston Street", in Manhattan, is correctly pronounced "HOW-stin", as New Yorkers do, not as "HYOO-stin", as the city in Texas is.