The film very much plays to Tallulah Bankhead's reputation of the time of being sexually quite daring. Bankhead herself described herself as being "ambisextrous".
Mrs. Albright states that there was some doubt as to whether Pocahontas was really married to John Smith. In fact, Pocahontas was only friends with John Smith and was never married to him.
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 Denver Saturday 24 October 1959 on KBTV (Channel 9); it was released on DVD 7 April 2009 as part of the Universal Backlot Series: Pre-Code Hollywood Collection.