After Paramount Pictures bought the rights to this film, the studio pulled it from circulation to avoid competition with Frank Capra's remake Jour de chance (1950). The film remained unseen until it was re-released in the 1990s.
Raymond Walburn (Pettigrew) and Clarence Muse (Whitey) played the same roles in Frank Capra's 1950 remake titled Jour de chance (1950).
Douglass Dumbrille, Ward Bond and Charles Lane all play the same roles in the remake, Jour de chance (1950), although the respective character names are different.
In his autobiography, Frank Capra says he was disappointed in the film, mostly because Warner Baxter was deathly afraid of horses, so that he could not film many warm scenes between them. Baxter was "terrified of being bitten or kicked." It was the primary reason he remade the film [Jour de chance (1950)] with Bing Crosby, who loved horses.
Columbia Pictures bought the rights to the story "Broadway Bill" by Mark Hellinger for $8,000. (Source: Biography "The Mark Hellinger Story" by Jim Bishop)