When leading lady Jean Harlow was entombed in Glendale's Forest Lawn Cemetery in 1937, she was dressed in the gown she wore in this film.
While Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow play an engaged couple in this film, it was Harlow and William Powell who were contemplating marriage off screen during production. Unfortunately, Harlow would die the following year, before she and Powell could wed. She was only 26 years old.
Reportedly, while shooting the movie, the four stars had become close friends, and William Powell even gave up his old habit of hiding out in his dressing room between scenes so he could join in the fun with the rest of the cast. One of the biggest jokes was a running gag Spencer Tracy played on Myrna Loy, claiming that she had broken his heart with her recent marriage to producer Arthur Hornblow Jr. He even set up an "I Hate Hornblow" table in the studio commissary, reserved for men who claimed to have been jilted by Loy.
William Powell and Myrna Loy also co-starred in The Great Ziegfeld (1936), another of the Best Film Oscar nominees that year.