This film was released in Buenos Aires, Argentina without Spanish subtitles nor any title in Spanish. It was released only for "distinguished English-speakers audience" from Buenos Aires.
Ruth Chatterton's performance was the first in Academy Awards history to be nominated for a film directed by a woman (Dorothy Arzner).
Dubbed into German for for corresponding foreign audiences. Unusual for this period in filmmaking, this production had both dubbed foreign-language versions and completely original alternate language remakes, made with an entirely different cast, on the international market.
Final film of Fuller Mellish Jr., who died of a cerebral hemorrhage in February, 1930, one month before the film's release.
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; its earliest documented telecast took place in Los Angeles Friday 9 September 1960 on the Classic Theatre series of the Late, Late Show on KNXT (Channel 2).