The name of one of the screenwriters, Alice Duer Miller, is seen as the author of an article in a magazine, and Clark Gable remarks, "Hey, Alice has written a very nice article here."
The amphibious airplane Whitey takes to Cuba is a Sikorsky S-42. It was ordered by Pan Am and introduced in 1934. Only 10 were built, all for Pan Am. It could carry 32 passengers in four compartments and four or five crew members at a cruising speed of 150-160 mph and had a range of 1,200 to 1,900 miles, depending on the version (there were three).
This film was a success for MGM, bringing in a profit of $876,000 ($19.2M in 2023 dollars) according to studio records.
The fifth of six films pairing Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, and the fourth picture for Gable and Myrna Loy starring together. This was the first film in which Loy and Harlow appeared together. They would be together again for Los enredos de una dama (1936).