The $1,000 per week Dodd is offered initially would equate to over $21,000 per week in 2024.
In this 1937 film, Jim Lidin (John Eldredge) mentions the coming technology of television that would supplant radio, because radio could not be further developed.
"The Great Crooner" by Clarence Budington Kelland on which this film is based was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post from 27 August to 1 October 1932.
The instrument the doctor displays to the camera after the procedure he performs on Dodd is an Abraham tonsil knife.
Pewamo is the name of an actual place, a village (population approx. 500) in Michigan about 20 miles northwest of Lansing.