Quiz

There was a widely-held belief that a young man in a wig and period costume appearing in a scene with Kay Francis in "I Found Stella Parish" was a young Errol Flynn. This was the chained male prisoner standing to the left of an all-white-clad Kay Francis on stage as she is giving her act IV speech near play finale. As reported by Rudy Behlmer in the March 1970 issue of "Films in Review" the writer and his collaborators, Clifford McCarthy and Tony Thomas, concluded that the Flynn lookalike was actually Ralph Bushman (a.k.a. Francis X. Bushman Jr.).

Warren William, whose star was slipping at Warner Bros., had originally been cast as Lockridge and had even shown up for work on the film, only to find that the studio had given the role to Ian Hunter and William was to play the much smaller role of Stephan Norman. William refused to accept the part, which eventually went to Paul Lukas.

Last of four films Kay Francis made with Paul Lukas and the first of seven she made with Ian Hunter.

The film was based on the story The Judas Tree by John Monk Saunders, which was also the working title of the film when it The film was adapted for the screen by Casey Robinson, who replaced original screenwriter Mary C. McCall Jr.. Another working title was simply Stella Parrish.

According to a news item in Hollywood Reporter, Mary C. McCall Jr. was originally signed to write the screenplay.