While many cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the 76-minute print available today, they were left in the cast list because of the missing nine minutes.
Aileen Covington's debut, though she has only four uncredited roles in a career that lasted about a year, and this "debut" is an "Undetermined Role."
Lady by Choice (1934) had originally been titled Hello, Big Boy but renamed to capitalize on Lady by Choice (1934). Carole Lombard's character was called Alabam' Lee, (supposedly based on nightclub owner Texas Guinan and fan-dancer Sally Rand) who is convicted on a morals charge. Her agent hires Patsy Patterson from an old ladies' home to pose as Alabam's mother to give her a more wholesome image.
1934 was also a good year for Carole Lombard's career. After years of playing decorative roles that gave her little to do but look beautiful and wear gorgeous clothes, she was finally given the opportunity to show her comedic side in Columbia's Twentieth Century (1934). Lombard stunned audiences and critics alike who didn't think she had it in her, although in her personal life she was an extremely funny woman and had learned comedy while a teenager at the Mack Sennett Studios. Twentieth Century changed her career for the better and while still on loan-out to Columbia from her home studio Paramount, she was given another opportunity at a comedy in Lady by Choice (1934).
The New York Times review on November 17, 1934 was complimentary--"It is a pleasant surprise, then, to be able to report that Lady by Choice (1934) is an exception. It is a well-rounded story, enacted by a tried and true cast, directed with sureness by David Burton and spiced with Jo Swerling's natural, robust and clever dialogue.....For box-office reasons Miss Lombard's name heads the cast, but no one in the audience will be fooled. Lady by Choice is Miss Robson's picture. She made it what it is today."