Most of the film was shot with Johnny Mack Brown in the role of Carl when it was decided to drop this footage and reshoot it with Clark Gable.
Marjorie Rambeau, who played one of Crawford's fellow showgirls would play Crawford's mother 22 years later and receive an Oscar nomination for her role in a musical film called "Torch Song," ironically, the title of the original story "Laughing Sinners" is based on.
Kenyon Nicholson's play, "Torch Song," opened on 27 August 1930 on Broadway in New York City. Guy Kibbee originated the role of Cass Wheeler in that production.
This film did well at the box office, earning a profit of $156,000 ($2.48M in 2016) for MGM according to studio records.
This was Joan Crawford's fourth film with director Harry Beaumont. He had previously directed her in her star-making vehicle Our Dancing Daughters (1928), plus the subsequent Our Blushing Brides (1930) and Dance, Fools, Dance (1931). The also both worked on the never-completed Great Day (1930)