Both Edmund Lowe and Virginia Bruce lived to an old age, and both lived out their final years at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, a movie industry charity which offers support to former film-makers without the means to provide for basic needs like living quarters and health-care.
The eighth of 15 "Philo Vance" films, produced at various studios, depending on which won the bidding for the film rights to the books by S.S. Van Dine. This is the last MGM production in the series. Warner Bros. would continue the series, then it would be picked up by "Poverty Row" studio Producers Releasing Corporation.
In the beginning, the music used in the background is from MGM's A Night at the Opera (1935), The Marx Brothers hit movie. Obviously, the studio owned the rights to the music and saved money by using it in the background.
MGM originally considered Brian Aherne and Rosalind Russell for the leads. Russell had played a leading role in the previous film in the series, The Casino Murder Case (1935).