Supporting player Vickie Lester took her name from Janet Gaynor's character in Nasce uma Estrela (1937). Unfortunately, she never achieved stardom and, after only a handful of films, she retired from the silver screen and opened a dress shop selling original gowns of her own design.
The first of three screen pairings of Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck; all were comedies. The other films are As Três Noites de Eva (1941) and Você Me Pertence (1941).
After the ladies discover a supposed bloodstain that's blue (really an ink stain), they speculate that someone might have murdered Mrs. Astor. This is a reference to Madeleine Astor, survivor of the sinking of Titanic, and her husband John Jacob Astor, whose socially prominent family's blood was reputed to be the bluest of blue.
Hattie McDaniel appears here, just a year before her Oscar-winning performance in ...E o Vento Levou (1939).
Hattie McDaniel's character of the maid Hilda is unusual in that, unlike most roles for African-Americans at the time, she did not play a weak, subservient, and cowardly character.