Jimmy Gleason, complaining about the formal dress and fancy manners George Raft insists on in his new casino, says that they've been made to act like "a lot of piccolo players." This was slang for homosexuals.
Reginald Owen and Ida Lupino are hungry and broke. He says, "When shall we two eat again?" This is an allusion to the first line of Macbeth, spoken by one of the witches: "When shall we three meet again?"
Ida Lupino was all of 18 years old when this film was made.
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.