During the shooting of this film, Ginger Rogers won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her previous film, "Kitty Foyle." The day after, all of the male cast and crew met her on the set in top hats and tails.
Late in the film, Dick takes Janie to Chicago to see a play starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
The stage couple presented Ginger Rogers with her 1940 Academy Award for "Kitty Foyle."
This film did well at the box office earning RKO a profit of $234,000 ($3.87M in 2017) according to studio records.
In Janie's dream about marrying the rich Dick Hamilton, the front page of the newspaper announcing the nuptials also declares: "ADOLF HITLER ASSASSINATED ... World War End Expected as Hitler Slain ... Nazi Dictator Struck Down in Moscow".
Included among the American Film Institute's 2002 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 top 100 America's Greatest Love Stories movies.