Howard Hawks's take on his being "fired" is that he wasn't. Rather, he quit, after refusing to agree with Samuel Goldwyn, who wanted the narrative to stay closer to that of the book. Goldwyn had been ill and absent for the 42 days of shooting that Hawks directed and was unaware of Hawks' rewrites. Hawks left the production with only 14 days left to go.
Howard Hawks stated that William Wyler's contribution was only ten minutes of screen time. However, it's generally thought that Wyler directed the last 30 minutes of the film.
Walter Brennan won the very first Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role as "Swan Bostrom", the category having been introduced in 1937. In the span of four years (1937-41), Brennan won a then-unprecedented three Oscars for acting, subsequently for Die goldene Peitsche (1938) and In die Falle gelockt (1940) - a feat unmatched until Katharine Hepburn won her third Best Actress award in 1969 for Der Löwe im Winter (1968). Brennan's success at the Academy Awards was seen as largely due in part to the fact that the Screen Extras Guild consistently voted for him, as Brennan had been an extra for many years until his breakout success as one of Hollywood's most respected character actors.
This was the most widely seen film of Frances Farmer's brief career, and her vocal on the song "Aura Lea" was considered so memorable that, more than 20 years later, she was asked to perform it live on a 1957 episode of The Ed Sullivan Show.
Film critics at the time this film was released widely expected that Frances Farmer would garner an Oscar nomination (if not a Best Actress statuette) for her impressive performances in the dual role of a slatternly saloon singer and the singer's sweet-faced but scheming daughter. Her failure to even get nominated was likely due to two factors: Come and Get It was produced by Samuel Goldwyn and released by United Artists, neither of which entity had a studio staff large enough to sway significant numbers of Academy voters. Also, in the 1930s, the Oscars tended to reflect how the film community felt about the performers themselves, at least as much as the quality of their performances, and industry backlash against Farmer for being a "trouble-maker" and an "ingrate" began during the making of this film.