The two china cats shown in one scene as a symbol of two people arguing came from director Rouben Mamoulian's own collection of such pieces.
This was Clara Bow's last film on her five-year contract, but due to her nervous breakdown, Sylvia Sidney replaced her after Nancy Carroll declined the part.
This was Dashiell Hammett's only original screenplay (adapted by Max Marcin, with the eventual script by Oliver H.P. Garrett).
The first sound flashback. Dialogue heard earlier in the film was repeated over a huge close-up of Sylvia Sidney's tear-stained face as she recalls the past.
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929-49, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Because of its age and sponsor resistance to the pre-code aspects of its story line, its first telecasts took place in Denver Friday 4 September 1959 on KBTV (Channel 9), in Philadelphia Monday 19 October 1959 on WCAU (Channel 10), and in New York City Monday 26 October 1959 on WCBS (Channel 2), on their Monday night Late Shows, which they reserved exclusively for connoisseurs of such fine vintage celluloid another early airing occurred in Johnstown 15 December 1959 on WJAC (Channel 6). It was released on DVD 28 September 2016 as part of the Universal Vault Series.