Evita Perón's favorite movie during her teenage years in Junín.
This film's plot and structure are uncannily similar to Norma Shearer's Academy Award-winning The Divorcee (1930) -- however, Riptide (1934) was made just as the Production Code was coming into power, which resulted in a fatal absence of pre-Code sting, despite its libidinous, adulterous scenario. The film's only pre-Code remnant is Shearer's revealing, bosomy evening gown, under which she wore no bra.
Snow was trucked in from the Sierra Mountains for use in the Alpine scene.
Robert Z. Leonard replaced Edmund Goulding as director for the last two-and-a-half weeks of filming.
Features a rare screen appearance by legendary stage actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell, whose manner and appearance resemble those of her peer, Constance Collier.