Herbert Marshall plays the writer Geoffrey Wolfe, a fictional alter ego of author W. Somerset Maugham. Marshall played Somerset Maugham in The Razor's Edge (1946), and appeared in several adaptations of Maugham's works, including The Painted Veil (1934) and both the 1929 and 1940 versions of The Letter (1940).
George Sanders, Herbert Marshall and Albert Basserman also acted together in Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940).
Albert Lewin had left his highly-paid job as an executive at MGM following the death of his mentor, Irving Thalberg. He set up this independent production of Somerset Maugham's novel but had only a small budget to work with; it was primarily to save money that Lewin also took on the writing and directing jobs on the film. Later, he returned to MGM, but with the proviso that he could occasionally take time off from his executive duties in order to direct his own films.
Herbert Marshall and Eric Blore also starred together in the romantic comedy: The Good Fairy (1935).
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