With her raise as a private secretary in 1930, Anne brags to her sister she's now making $45 a week. This equates to something over $800 a week in 2024.
This film has been preserved by the Library of Congress.
This was officially Joan Blondell's feature film and "talkie" debut; she and James Cagney were brought out from New York to re-create their stage roles in Sinners' Holiday (1930). Both films were shot more or less simultaneously, but this one was released about two months before "Holiday." Interestingly, her hair is a darker shade of blonde then it would be in her later films. She would become one of the major Warner Bros. stars for the following nine years.
Faith Baldwin's story was serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine early in 1930 and then published as a novel shortly thereafter. The opening title card reads "The prize Cosmopolitan magazine serial The Office Wife by Faith Baldwin."
Dorothy Mackaill was considered for the lead in this picture, according to the AFI Catalog. Contemporary articles in the press also mentioned Constance Bennett as having the lead until May 1930 when this changed.