"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onMarch 21, 1938 with George Arliss reprising his film role.
George Arliss and Ivan F. Simpson played the same roles ten years earlier in the 1922 silent version.
Fred Howard, who was not seen in movie despite his onscreen credit, is also omitted from an extensive cast list in the New York Times review of 11 February 1932.
Although George Arliss is credited by that name in the cast list, he is also credited as 'Mr. George Arliss' above the title.
Previously, George Arliss had starred in the play and in the 1922 silent version of the play.
The play, "The Silent Voice," opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 29 December 1914 and closed in March, 1915 after 71 performances. The opening night cast included Wade Boteler, who is also in the movie.
This was the first movie Bette Davis made under her contract to Warner Bros., the studio under which she did most of her best known work of the 1930s and '40s. Her earlier six films were made for Universal, who let her go after one year of lackluster performances.