In the famous scene in which the hat-check girl exclaims over Maudie's (Mae West) jewels, "Goodness, what beautiful diamonds," and Maudie replies, "Goodness had nothing to do with it, Dearie", the diamonds were real and belonged to West.
Feature film debut of Mae West. George Raft (Joe Anton) also appeared with her in her final film, Sextette (1977).
The $200,000 Joe agrees to sell his speakeasy for would equate to over $4.7M in 2025.
The diplomatic meeting in Switzerland that is talked about is the Lausanne Conference of 1932 that resulted in the agreement to lower the amount of reparations Germany owed that were imposed by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 after World War I. Audiences at the time would have had a good chance of knowing about this topic.