The first film produced by Fox to win the Best Picture Oscar®.
One of the few Noël Coward plays to never have been revived, probably due to the huge scale of the production.
Fox Movietone newsreel cameramen were dispatched to London to record the original stage production as a guide for the filmmakers.
Sixteen-year-old Betty Grable, who had already been in films for three years, is the "Blonde Girl on the Couch" in the 1930s wild party sequence. The little girl playing the servant's daughter is Bonita Granville in one of her earliest roles.
As of now, this film has the fewest IMDb votes out of all Best Picture Oscar® winners.