After winning her Best Actress Academy Award in 1931 for "Min and Bill," Marie was nominated again the very next year for her role in "Emma."
The airport in the film is called "Clover Field" in the movie. Clover Field was then the name of what is now the Santa Monica Airport. (The scenes were actually shot at the Los Angeles Airport.)
Myrna Loy's first film for MGM.
This film did very well at the box office, earning MGM a profit of $898,000 (about $21M in 2024) according to studio records.
When this was filmed, Marie Dressler was nearly 63 and Jean Hersholt was 45.