Trivia

On the road to stardom was Monty Woolley, a Broadway favorite making his feature film debut (though his second film, Nothing Sacred (1937), would reach theaters first). He would achieve his greatest success as acerbic columnist Sheridan Whiteside in the stage and screen versions of The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941).

Although Nothing Sacred began production several weeks prior to the production of this film, the former was not released until several weeks after the latter. It has not been determined which film Woolley first began work on.

After teaming Rosalind Russell and Robert Montgomeryy in the artistically ambitious Night Must Fall (1937), MGM hedged its bets by putting them into this more traditional screwball comedy. Though less noteworthy than their earlier film, it offered Russell a fascinating chance to show what she could do with the role of a madcap heiress. Montgomery already had earned a reputation as a light comedian in films such as Private Lives (1931) and When Ladies Meet (1941), but this was Russell's first brush with screwball comedy after a series of more patrician roles. The stars would reteam Fast and Loose (1939), an attempt to create another husband-and-wife detective series like The Thin Man (1934), ironic as Russell had been brought to MGM as backup in case that series' star, Myrna Loy, grew difficult. Also ironic is Russell's casting just a year after this film, once again playing a wife trying to keep her husband from selling out in the award-winning medical drama The Citadel (1938).

The $2,000 check from Uncle Albert would equate to nearly $46,000 in 2024.

The film's story was a "busy mess", which may be due to the number of hands involved in the writing. The original plot was an adaptation of an original story by Helen Grace Carlisle and eventually had three credited screenwriters.

Mickey Rooney's small role was one of seven he played that year, but it would be one of his last supporting performances. This film was made only a few months after A Family Affair (1937), the first of the Hardy family films. Before the year's end, he would shoot to stardom with a larger role in the first real Andy Hardy film, You're Only Young Once (1937).