According to legend, the trend toward women not wearing hats began with this movie. Maggie (Carole Lombard) enters a restaurant and removes her hat, something previously taboo with women.
The scene showing Maggie (Carole Lombard) burning her beauty parlor customer's hair off is based in fact. If left in the permanent wave machine too long, hair would burn off.
A studio press-book for this film notes this is the first picture where Carol Lombard tap dances, and that she learned to do so specifically for this film by taking lessons from LeRoy Prinz. She also received vocal coaching from Al Siegel.
One of the top hits for Paramount for the 1936-37 film season.
The lead was originally offered to Gary Cooper, who turned it down, then to Bing Crosby, who also turned it down, then to Fred MacMurray, who took it.