 Based on the Broadway hit by Vincent Youmans, the film was shot  during the summer of 1930. Legend has it that production was shut  down before the film as completed, but a numerous reports indicated  that the film was very near completion when, for obscure reasons,  and at Crawfords behest, production came to a halt. Work began to  rewrite the script and to remount the project in 1931 with Crawford,  and in 1935 with Jeanette MacDonald, but plans never reached  fruition.