In an interview [in the 1970s], Mara Corday was asked about her work in "occasional small movies" before Universal, and she answered: «Yes, like Problem Girls, which I just saw again. It was done in a big mansion called the Brunswick Mansion on Adams Boulevard in L.A. It was the most horrible sound system and the lighting was just atrocious because we were in a house, not in a real studio. And it was directed by a man who was like 90 years old. He had done a classic German picture called Variety [1925], he could barely speak English, and he was just hanging by a thread! Helen Walker, the star of that film, had just gotten arrested for hit-and-run and it literally destroyed her career, because she was guilty, she was drunk - and she was drinking all through the picture, too. The director would yell up, "Quiet!" and she'd yell down, "F*** you!"»
The poor state of the mansion used for location is confirmed by the fact that 3528 West Adams would last only until 1955, when, on June 20 of that year, the Department of Building and Safety issued a permit for its demolition. The director Ewald André Dupont died in 1956 at age 67, but he was already ill in 1953.
