Barbara Stanwyck had played Bonny King on stage (under her original name, Ruby Stephens) and tested for the film, but Paramount decided to use Nancy Carroll because she, unlike Stanwyck, had already made films and therefore had a movie "name".
All Technicolor prints are lost, only the black and white copies made in the 1950s for TV have survived.
Reel #7, which runs from 1:00 to 1:08, and consists of the Ziegfeld Follies production number, was originally in 2-color Technicolor, but can only be seen in black and white in the presently circulating DVD version.
The screenplay was based on the Broadway production "Burlesque" by George Manker Watters and Arthur Hopkins, which opened on September 1, 1927 and ran for 372 performances.
A. Edward Sutherland:
as a theater attendant.
John Cromwell:
as a doorman.