Overton is supposed to be flat broke and homeless, but he's wearing an immaculate three-piece suit and tie and is freshly shaved. (Loy is also well-dressed in a fur-trimmed suit, but she's only pretending.) As was so often the case at MGM, Louis B. Mayer loathed the depiction of poverty.
The car they win is a 1939 Plymouth 4-door sedan, which sold at that time for about $800.
This film was a modest success for MGM at the box office, earning a profit of $126,000 ($2.62M in 2022) according to studio records.
Cora and Bill are depicted as riding on a Fifth Avenue Coach Company open-top double-decker bus. The company operated this kind bus from 1907 until the end of 1946. Since then, some private tour bus lines have begun to use these types of buses in the city.
Robert Taylor and Myrna Loy reprised their roles from the film on the May 11, 1939 episode of the radio show "Good News of 1939".