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.
Hugh Herbert wrote his own dialogue for one of the closing sequences and he had a three way contract as actor, writer and director - the first ever in Hollywood.
Makeup wizard Wally Westmore had a strange assignment in having to make up a horse to look as if it was dying of starvation, by painting streaks of white paint along its ribs.
Alice Hegan Rice wrote the original novel and turned it into a play with many well known actresses playing Mrs Wiggs over the years.
For added reality an assortment of animals - goats, horses, dogs and chickens - lived on the stage with the latter becoming so used to their surroundings that they even laid eggs.