Edwin Knopf, who wrote the original story for "The Wedding Night," was a close friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald and based the characters played by Gary Cooper and Helen Vinson on Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Gary Cooper hated his co-star, Anna Sten, so much that behind her back he would refer to her as "Anna Stench."
King Vidor told newspaper columnist Dan Thomas that he used temperature control in the soundstage, cranking the heat in the studio up to 80 degrees for the love scenes between Gary Cooper and Anna Sten. For the scenes in which Cooper and Sten argue, he had the studio cooled to 50 degrees.
Anna Sten insisted on leaving Los Angeles for a vacation during pre-production on this film. Without a lead actress at their disposal, the production team hired Ruth Moody to do all the costume and lighting tests because of her resemblance to the absent Sten.
Richard Powell (Truck Driver) and Alphonse Martell (Waiter) are in studio records/casting call lists for their roles, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie.