Although the real Diamond Jim Brady died in 1917, almost 20 years before this film was made, Edward Arnold, who played him, met Brady twice when he was a young actor just starting out in the theater - once when Brady came to pick up an actress who was in the same play as Arnold, and another time when he was in Ethel Barrymore's acting company and Brady came backstage to pay his respects to her.
Edward Arnold would later reprise his role as Diamond Jim Brady in Le roman de Lillian Russell (1940).