In Britain the letters B.F. have a vulgar connotation, so the title was changed in the U.K. to the simpler "Polly Fulton."
In the scene where Barbara Stanwyck, playing the new bride, was supposed to be carried across the threshold by her husband, she and director Robert Z. Leonard cooked up a practical joke and draped her body with heavy chains under the mink coat she wore, making it impossible for Van Heflin to pick her up.
When Tom reads in the newspaper about the attempted assassination of President-elect Roosevelt, that would put the date as February 15, 1933.
This film did poorly at the box office, resulting in a loss of $565,000 ($5.7M in 2017) for MGM according to studio records.
Van Heflin and Charles Coburn both previously appeared in another film version of a John P. Marquand novel - H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941).