The M-G-M film Personal Property (1937), directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor, was also based on the H.M. Harwood play. Reginald Owen played "Dabney" and Forrester Harvey played the "a bailiff" in that film as well.
Reginald Owen played Claude Dabney both in this movie and the remake Personal Property (1937) with Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor.
The play opened in London, England on 22 January 1930. It opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 1 November 1930 and had 98 performances, with Leslie Banks and Isabel Jeans as the leads.
This title was included among the 700+ features packaged for television broadcast by MGM in 1956. However, because of its age and obscurity, and an important pre-code twist to the story that was no longer acceptable by 1950s standards, it seldom was taken out of the can. Among its handful of documented telecasts, viewers could have caught it in Cleveland OH on Thursday 27 February 1958 on KYW (Channel 3), in Philadelphia PA Wednesday 18 June 1958 on WFIL (Channel 6), and in Los Angeles CA Thursday 17 August 1961 on KTTV (Channel 11). Today, vintage film enthusiasts can catch it on Turner Classic Movies.
Austrian actress Nora Gregor supposedly learned English for a role in this film, but she was not seen in the TCM print.