Co-stars Franchot Tone and Joan Crawford were married from 1935-39. They made seven films together between 1933-37.
Eve Arden has a bit part in the film. In one memorable scene, she plays an actress faking a Southern accent. Twelve years later, she and Joan Crawford teamed for the noir classic Le roman de Mildred Pierce (1945), which won Crawford a Best-Actress Oscar and Arden a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination.
Joan Crawford was Fred Astaire's first on-screen dance partner. Interestingly, Crawford would pass away on Astaire's 78th birthday.
Fillm debut of Fred Astaire. NOTE: (1) Though he was reported to have appeared years earlier in the silent film Fanchon, the Cricket (1915), he and his sister Adele Astaire only visited the set; they did not appear on camera. (2) This was the first time Astaire wore his signature top hat and tails.
In the original film, Larry Fine completes his jigsaw puzzle only to discover to his disgust that it's a picture of Hitler. This was removed by the Production Code before the film was released to theaters, because they claimed it was an insult to a foreign head of state. The scene was restored to the TV release but not to the video release.
Had the jigsaw solving been included in the 1933 release, Le Tourbillon de la danse (1933) may have been Hollywood's first public acknowledgment on film of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, featuring a pronounced response from a Jewish character.
Had the jigsaw solving been included in the 1933 release, Le Tourbillon de la danse (1933) may have been Hollywood's first public acknowledgment on film of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, featuring a pronounced response from a Jewish character.