No music is heard under the opening or closing credits of Madame X, which was the result of a short-lived practice in which studios expected the local theater musicians to provide live accompaniment to the opening credits of sound films. Keyboardists and orchestras were still working in the theaters in the late 1920s providing music for silent films still in distribution. Live music was a way to make the screening more of a special event and not a purely "canned" presentation.
MGM premiered the film in New York City's Sam H. Harris Theater, a legitimate stage venue that was rented for the occasion.
Retitled "Absinthe", in order to avoid confusion with the 1937 re-make, this film was first telecast in Portland OR Friday 21 March 1958 on KGW (Channe 8), in Canada in Windsor ON 2 April 1958 on CKLW (Channel 9), in Spokane WA 14 April 1958 on KHQ (Channel 6) and in San Francisco 5 June 1958 on KGO-TV (Channel 7).