"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onOctober 11, 1937 with Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley and Barbara O'Neil reprising their film roles.
Samuel Goldwyn would have preferred Ruth Chatterton for the title role, but she turned it down, having just played a less-than-perfect wife in Dodsworth.
Laraine Day's first movie performance.
Frances Farmer was suggested for the part of the daughter, but producer Samuel Goldwyn was not keen after having clashed with Farmer on his previous Come and Get It.
Mabel Colcord is listed in studio records as an actress in this movie but did not appear. Al Shean, Lillian West and Mildred Gover were in Hollywood Reporter production charts, but also did not appear in the movie.
The movie was so popular it became a radio serial on 25 October 1937, dramatizing the later lives of characters in the movie. The serial lasted for eighteen years.
The play version written by Harry Wagstaff Gribble and Gertrude Purcell had no Broadway, New York run.