Remake of the 1933 MGM film When Ladies Meet (1933) starring Robert Montgomery, Ann Harding and Myrna Loy.
Cedric Gibbons was nominated for the Art Direction Academy Award for this picture. He had also been nominated in the same category for When Ladies Meet (1933).
Spring Byington created the role of Bridget Drake in the original Broadway production. As she had not yet made a reputation as a screen actress, sh e was passed over for the first film version in 1933. By the time the remake was being planned, Byington was a prominent member of the MGM stock company and was a natural choice to finally reprise her stage role.
Nearly every aspect of the scandalous play and pre-Code film version are included in the 1941 remake. Despite the difference in running times between the two film versions, the screenplays are virtually identical.
The canopy bed in Clare's room was used a year earlier as the bed in which Joan Crawford had slept in in the film Susan and God (1940).