Trivia

None of the three main stars could skate; the screenplay was written with this in mind.

The only film in which Joan Crawford was seen in 3-color Technicolor. A decade later, she made a cameo in the Techicolor film It's a Great Feeling (1949), and it was another four years before she made her first all-color film Torch Song (1953).

This film was an attempt by M-G-M to replicate Fox's surprising success with extravaganzas on ice starring Olympic Gold Medal- winning Norwegian skater Sonja Henie. In one sequence, Joan Crawford is even seen with blonde hair, emulating the appearance of Henie. Unlike Fox's Henie films, which catapulted their star into the Top Ten Box Office Players list, this film bombed so badly that Crawford's future movie career was impacted by its failure.

After this film not only tanked at the box office, but also prompted The New York Times to suggest "Miss Crawford should not make any more films like this," Crawford began to question the wisdom of the M-G-M executives who had guided her career since 1925. Within a few years (and after several more unpopular movies) she bought her way out of her Metro contract, and all but went into retirement while seeking an appropriate comeback vehicle. Her eventual choice was Warner Brothers' 1945 melodrama Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won an Academy Award as Best Actress.

This film was a flop at the box office, resulting in a loss to MGM of $343,000 ($6M in 2017) according to studio records.