According to cinematographer Lee Garmes, "I directed about 60 to 70 percent of the picture; we'd start at 9 a.m. and some days Hecht [Ben Hecht] was there, some days MacArthur [Charles MacArthur]; they'd start working on the picture at 11 a.m.! So they relied on me. They set the style of how they wanted the dialogue done, and I would direct the whole physical side of it."
This marked the film debut (at 16 years of age) of Margo, and also the film debuts of actresses Esther Dale and Whitney Bourne.
In the opening sequences, three women playing the Furies fly out of a pool of blood in sexy negligees showing much of their private parts. The Hays Code removed the sequence, and It was shown again only 50 years later. The sequence can be viewed on YouTube.
One of the few films of the 1930s in which most of the credits are shown at the end.
This film marked Ben Hecht's debut as an actor, a director, and a producer.