Eight minutes were deleted from the finished print: the first depicted the killing of the evil Chan Lo and the second showed Rose switching places with Annie, putting makeup on her face. The Legion of Decency refused to allow the film to be released with this second scene uncut, due to Sister Annie's association with the Salvation Army.
Raoul Walsh says in his biography that Mae West arrived often late on the set. Ernst Lubitsch, who was producer, had a severe argument with her because of this situation. She suddenly became berserk and hit him with a mirror. And continued to arrive late on the set, only to piss Lubitsch off.
It was around the time that Mae was making this picture that her husband, Frank Wallace, came forward and sold his story to the press. She was forced to admit he was her husband, and they divorced in 1942. Complicating matters was the fact that Frank had married another woman illegally in 1915 and had just recently divorced her.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Its earliest documented telecasts took place in Seattle Tuesday 12 May 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7), followed by Pittsburgh 14 October 1959 on KDKA (Channel 2). It was released on DVD as a single 17 June 1998 by Image Entertainment, and again 8 March 2016 as one of nine titles in Universal's Mae West: The Essential Collection.
Final film of Ilean Hume.