Jerry tells her malingering roommate, "Snap out of it, Lady Vere de Vere." This lady was the subject of a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. She was the haughtiest and coldest lady in the peerage, and the one with the noblest title. Her name has become an ironic way of referring to someone who is acting snooty.
This film was a hit at the box office, earning MGM a profit of $412,000 ($7.62M in 2023) according to studio records.
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) is loosely based on this; i.e., 3 women who work at the same department and plan to marry rich men.
The third of three films from MGM featuring the duo of Joan Crawford and Anita Page. The other two were Our Dancing Daughters (1928) and Our Modern Maidens (1929).
When Franky describes her relationship with Martin as being the "Fannie Hurst" system of "six days out, one day in", she is referring to the popular American author Fannie Hurst and her marriage to Jacques Danielson - where it was common knowledge that they led separate lives and even had separate houses. They married in 1915 and remained so until his death in 1952.