Wissenswertes

(at around 23 mins) It is interesting to note that the characters played by Billy House and Tyrell Davis are discussing Toto's mental state while using a "pissoir", or public urinal, on a street in Paris. At the time of this film the city had over 1,200 such structures.

This film originally was completed as a musical, but due to audience interest in such films waning in the U.S., all those numbers were cut in the U.S. and UK releases but left intact for other countries. A print of the U.S. version has been preserved by the Library of Congress.

When Florine and Fifi encounter each other in Toto's apartment, he introduces them, respectively, as his 'night nurse' and his 'day nurse', and Fifi threatens Florine with the line "I'll 'night nurse' you!" Joan Blondell, who plays Fifi, would go on to play a day nurse in Night Nurse (1931). Coincidentally, her co-star in that film is Frank Fay's (Toto) then wife, Barbara Stanwyck.

Diane's player piano is a Steinway XR Duo-Art Reproducing Grand. In 2018, these pianos, fully restored, can fetch $50,000 or more.

Inexperienced in the making of sound motion pictures which required professionally spoken dialogue, Louise Brooks was no longer able to get the leading roles which she had once enjoyed in Hollywood, and now had to settle for whatever supporting roles came along, such as her role in this one.