Supporting player Vickie Lester took her name from Janet Gaynor's character in A Star Is Born (1937). Unfortunately, she never achieved stardom and, after only a handful of films, she retired from the silver screen and opened a dress shop selling original gowns of her own design.
The first of three screen pairings of Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck; all were comedies. The other films are The Lady Eve (1941) and You Belong to Me (1941).
The scene set in a nightclub recycles a stairway set used in another RKO screwball comedy, the Katharine Hepburn/Cary Grant classic Bringing Up Baby (1938).
This film was modestly successful at the box office, earning RKO a profit of $88,000 ($1.89M in 2023) according to studio records.
Penny Singleton, who plays jealous lover Francis, later dyed her hair blonde and played the title role in Columbia Pictures' successful, long-running series of Blondie movies.
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