The Lockheed Electra seen in this film is the same one that was flown by Amelia Earhart on her ill-fated around-the-world flight attempt the following year.
The film was written to cash in on the popularity of "runaway heiress" films like It Happened One Night (1934), in which Clark Gable also starred.
Barny Pells (Franchot Tone) swears by the "seventh son of the seventh son"; Tone also does so in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).
Franchot Tone and Joan Crawford were married in 1935. They made seven films together and were divorced in 1939.