John Gilbert. did not know how to fight. So director Mervyn LeRoy had to resort to trickery to look like Gilbert was a good fighter, using speeded-up camerawork and close-ups of Gilbert's fist coming directly at the camera.
With his feet up on a table, Frank is reading a copy of "Captain Billy's Whiz Bang," created by Wilford Hamilton Fawcett (1885-1940), who was a US Army captain in WWI and named his bawdy humor magazine after a type of German artillery shell. It was published from 1919-36.
While Jack is telling Marjorie a lot of untruths about his background, the radio is playing the song "Little White Lies."
Based on the story "A Gentleman's Fate" by Ursula Parrott that was serialized in "Household" magazine from March to July 1931.
This film received its first (and probably only) telecast in New York City 9/16/57 on "The Late, Late Show" on WCBS (Channel 2); in Philadelphia it was first shown 10/21/58 on WFIL (Channel 6) and in San Francisco it was finally telecast 9/5/63 on KGO (Channel 7). There is no reliable documentation that it was ever televised in Los Angeles. Its infrequent television showings then were limited to the less predominant markets such as 1/2/58 on CKLW (Channel 9). (Windsor, Ontario/Detroit, Michigan,) and 3/28/58 on KYW (Channel 3) (Cleveland, OH). Today, film enthusiasts have it easier and are happy to see Turner Classic Movies occasionally give it an airing because of renewed interest in the career of John Gilbert.