Anecdotes

According to Melvyn Douglas, Joan Crawford got herself to cry by listening to recordings of "None but the Lonely Heart".

MGM originally planned to have Jean Harlow star in this film.

This was the first film Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone made together after their marriage in 1935.

Joan Crawford's first period film of the sound era. It was also her biggest budgeted film up to that point, at $1,119,000.

Lionel Barrymore played U.S. President Andrew Jackson again in the 1952 western L'étoile du destin (1952), his last film. Beulah Bondi, who plays Rachel Jackson in this movie, also is in the later film in a different role.