Originally, RKO slated Katharine Hepburn to star in this picture. She had just been declared a "box office deterrent" by the Independent Theater Owners Association. She refused the role and consequently bought out her contract from RKO.
Toward the end, Mrs. Pauline Fuller (Margaret Hamilton) and Mr. Clarence Fuller (Harvey Clark) spend significant screen time together in the same bed, despite the Hays Code's specific prohibition against such behavior. [This might have been allowed because the couple is married.]
At the beginning, there is a recruiting poster for the "War in Cuba." This would date that time in the film as being during the Spanish-American War --- from April to August 1898.
RKO also considered Ginger Rogers for the role of Nancy, as she had been wanting to play a "wholesome type," but the role went to Anne Shirley.
Ruby Keeler left Warner for RKO who signed her to a $40,000, two-picture contract but strangely only made this one movie with her --- Mother Carey's Chickens (1938). Keeler never fulfilled her two-picture deal with RKO because she hated the idea of getting second billing to Anne Shirley.