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• Robert Montgomery was accidentally knocked unconscious during the fight scene with Norma Shearer.
  
  
• Glacier Bay Park in Montana doubled for the Swiss Alps in the film's mountain climbing scene.
  
  
• The original play opened in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, and starred Noel Coward (who also directed), Gertrude Lawrence, Laurence Olivier and Adrianne Allen. After a 5-week tour of England, it opened a scheduled 3-month engagement in London on 24 September 1930, after which it came to Broadway, New York City, on 27 January 1931 and ran for 256 performances, closing in September 1931. Jill Esmond replaced Allen in New York for the role of Sybil. The very popular play had 6 Broadway revivals alone, the last in 2002, and is continually revived the world over.
  
  

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