The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 states that this was Hedy Lamarr's last film under her MGM contract; it was her first. AFI also adds that Mary Taylor was signed to a long-term MGM contract as a result of her work in this picture; in fact, she would be seen in only four feature films in her entire career, and only one more of them, Flores do Pó (1941) would be made at MGM.
This film was a mild success at the box office, earning MGM a profit of $99,000 ($1.78M in 2019) according to studio records.
The distance Bill and Manon traveled by boat from Saigon to Angkor Wat in Cambodia was approximately 300 miles.
The opera Pierre and Manon see is Manon Lescaut" (1893). Music by Giacomo Puccini. The opera was based on the 1731 novel of the same name by Abbé Prévost. The novel is one of the most reprinted in French history and is still read.