Turn Back the Clock (1933) was the first film in which then known as "Ted Healy's Stooges"--Moe Howard, Jerry Howard (later known as Curly Howard), and Larry Fine--appeared together, but not as The Three Stooges. They sing "Sweet Adeline." Joe tells them to sing "something lively"; Larry volunteers that they know "My Old Kentucky Home." Forgetting the difference in years while drunk, Joe requests the Stooges sing "Tony's Wife" (a pop song from 1933), which the Stooges are unfamiliar with; it's Moe then asks "Tony's wife? Who is she?" Although they are not credited as the Three Stooges (indeed, they receive no screen credit at all), this marks the first time the trio appeared as a group on film without their former leader, Ted Healy. They would launch their long-running film-shorts career a few months later.
The $4,000 in savings Joe and Mary argue about investing with Ted is the equivalent of approximately $80,000 in 2020.
One of seven feature films Lee Tracy appeared in which were released in 1933 by MGM. He was the male lead in six, and the other was Pranzo alle otto (1933) where he was part of the ensemble case of the studio's top stars.
The calendar date of Joe's transformation is 6 March 1933, two days after the inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt to his first term as U.S. president, and the same day that he instituted a nationwide "bank holiday" mentioned in the opening scene of the movie. The bank holiday was intended to stop Americans from making panicky cash withdrawals from banks. After the federal government ascertained the financial condition of every bank in the country, those deemed sound reopened on March 13, and Americans were soon flocking to these banks to redeposit their money. The seven-day hiatus on banking activity helped counter the public's uncertainty in the nation's banking system brought on by the Great Depression.
Mae Clarke also had a connection to The Front Page (1931), having starred in the 1931 Lewis Milestone film version opposite Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien. That year proved to be a remarkable high point as she also got a grapefruit in the kisser from James Cagney in Nemico pubblico (1931) and headlined two James Whale films, the original (very pre-Code) version of Il ponte di Waterloo (1940) and the horror classic Frankenstein (1931).