Merian C. Cooper had accused RKO of not paying him all the money contractually due for six RKO films he produced in the 1930s. In 1946, a settlement was reached, giving Cooper complete ownership of the RKO titles: Rafter Romance (1933) with Ginger Rogers, A doppia briglia (1933) with Ann Harding and William Powell, Sogno d'estate (1933) with Ann Harding and Robert Young, One Man's Journey (1933) with Lionel Barrymore, Living on Love (1937) and A Man to Remember (1938).
In 2006, Turner Classic Movies, which had acquired the rights to the six films after extensive legal negotiations, broadcast them on TCM in April 2007, their first full public exhibition in over 70 years. TCM, in association with the Library of Congress and the Brigham Young University Motion Picture Archive, had searched many film archives throughout the world to find copies of the films in order to create new 35mm prints.
In 2006, Turner Classic Movies, which had acquired the rights to the six films after extensive legal negotiations, broadcast them on TCM in April 2007, their first full public exhibition in over 70 years. TCM, in association with the Library of Congress and the Brigham Young University Motion Picture Archive, had searched many film archives throughout the world to find copies of the films in order to create new 35mm prints.
Based on the short story "The Failure" (incorrectly credited by the studio as simply "Failure") by Katharine Haviland-Taylor in American Magazine (Nov 1932). The characters played by Jordan ("Lettie") and Robson (housekeeper "Sarah") were not in the story but were created by the screenwriters. The movie's pre-Code era is revealed in such touches as the Jordan character's out-of-wedlock pregnancy.
Remade by RKO as A Man to Remember (1938), directed by Garson Kanin with a Dalton Trumbo screenplay.
The working title of the film was The Doctor.
Dorothy Jordan, who plays "Lettie," secretly married the film's executive producer Merian C. Cooper in May 1933, a month before filming began.