As a secretary, Sylvia is paid $35 a week by Gaylord. That would be equivalent to $625 in 2022, adjusted for inflation, or $32,500 a year. As compensation for marrying him, Gaylord offers Sylvia $5,000, which is equivalent to nearly $90,000 in 2022.
Was not a success at the box office on its initial release, resulting in a loss to the studio of $40,000 ($714,000 in 2022) according to studio records.
The opening view of Lower Manhattan is an historical snapshot of New York's Financial District in 1930. The building under construction is the American International Building (70 Pine Street in 2021), which would be New York's third tallest building when completed in 1932. Modern sources indicate that the following establishing shot of the New York City office building was filmed in downtown Los Angeles, at the recently constructed Eastern Columbia Building located at 849 S. Broadway. There is a closeup of its clock tower which reads "EASTERN".
Constance Bennett really plays the piano in this picture according to a contemporary article in Film Daily.
The print shown on Turner Classic Movies opens with a 1950s RKO Radio Pictures logo, an anachronism because this is a Pathé production, made before the RKO-Pathé merger, but ultimately released to television in the 1950s by C&C Television Corp. in its original RKO feature film package. In order to be chronologically correct, TCM needs to replace it with a Pathé Rooster logo instead.