Tallulah Bankhead's first film after spending years on stage in New York and London. Though notorious for loving wild parties, rampant drug use and non-stop sex with men and women, she behaved herself on the set and filming went smoothly. But she found filmmaking to be very boring and did not have the patience for it. After over eight years of living in Great Britain and touring on their theatrical stages, she did not like living in Hollywood either. When she met producer Irving Thalberg, she asked him "How do you get laid in this dreadful place?" Thalberg retorted "I'm sure you'll have no problem. Ask anyone."
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; because of its age, obscurity, and unacceptable (by mid-50s standards) pre-code twists and turns, it was rarely taken off the shelf; its earliest documented telecast took place in San Francisco Monday 12 December 1960 on KPIX (Channel 5).