One of he few times James Finlayson appeared on screen without his famous mustache. He was clean shaven off the set.
Patsy Kelly, who plays wise-cracking Nellie, was among the first film personalities to live an openly gay lifestyle, unabashedly confessing to Motion Picture magazine in the mid-1930s that she was unlikely to ever marry, since she was a self-described "dyke." In the 1950s, Kelly began a longterm relationship as both personal assistant and companion to Broadway legend Tallulah Bankhead.
Walter Long's final appearance with Laurel & Hardy as their tough guy nemesis.
The aircraft at the airport everyone rushes to meet is a very famous one - a 1935 Douglas DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport), registration NC14988, owned by American Airlines and was named "Flagship Texas". This was the first DC-3 made and the first configured as a DST. It was sold to TWA in March of 1942 and flew military contracts, and it was then sold to the U.S. Army Air Force in July 1942. It was involved in a fatal crash and damaged beyond repair in Missouri in October 1942.
The opening credits show a picture of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy on the frame following Lyda Roberti's name, but they are not identified. Also, they are not in the comprehensive cast list in the end credits; so, technically, they both are uncredited.