The Van Brett sisters are based on Rebecca and Ella Wendel, famously wealthy and eccentric spinsters in New York City. Ella died in 1931 and the family's notorious 5th Avenue mansion was razed three years later, the same year this film was released.
The original play by Elizabeth McFadden opened at the Ritz Theatre in New York on September 21, 1933, and ran for 143 performances. Mary Morris and Anne Revere appeared in this production and reprised their roles in this film.
Only film role of Mary Morris, despite drawing rave reviews from critics at the time. Morris was in her late 30s when she made this film, and seems to have made a career playing older women on the stage.
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; its earliest documented telecasts took place in Minneapolis Saturday 22 August 1959 on WTCN (Channel 11) and in Seattle Monday 24 August 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7).