George Raft and Wallace Beery were at odds during filming. According to Raft, before the fistfight scene, Beery asked Raft to let him throw the first punch and then proceeded to sucker-punch Raft, knocking him out for several minutes. "When I came to I got up and called him everything I could think of," Raft said. They then fought for real, and the crew had to break it up.
Clark Gable was sought for the part of Brodie, but was not available.
When Fay Wray's character was going to take a bath, neither her hair's style or her underwear look like they were from before the XX Century but rather in 1933.