"[1] "As Andrew Horton notes, Sturges appears to have had a fascination with [...] inter-class narratives, and a number of his plays, screenplays, and films contain 'sudden transitions in socioeconomic status'.

[...] "His 1932 play Child of Manhattan, subsequently made into a movie by Columbia Pictures (Edward Buzzell, 1933), involves the relationship of the son of the immensely wealthy Paul Vanderkill with a dime-a-dance girl".

[2] Taxi dancer Madeleine McGonegle (Nancy Carroll) attracts the attention of millionaire Paul Vanderkill (John Boles), and when she becomes pregnant, they marry to avoid a scandal.

There, she meets "Panama Canal" Kelly (cowboy star Buck Jones), an old friend who proposed to her before he went west.

[5] The movie shot for two weeks with Neil Hamilton playing the part of "Paul", before he was replaced by John Boles.