Based upon Sidney Howard's play "They Knew What They Wanted" the film was initially titled "Sunkissed."
Because of legal complications, this title was never included in the MGM library of feature films released to television in 1956; a singular telecast took place on Turner Classic Movies 3 August 1994, as evidence of its survival, but it was never re-shown, most likely as a result of as yet unresolved legal issues.
The film is based on the Broadway production of "They Knew What They Wanted" by Sidney Howard opened on November 24, 1924 at the Garrick Theater, ran for 192 performances and won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1925.
Because of Vilma Banky's thick Hungarian accent, her character does not speak a word until the third reel, almost twenty minutes into the film, at which time she begins a talk fest, explaining not just once but twice that she was born in Switzerland, and didn't come to San Francisco until she was fourteen years old. Sadly, unlike Greta Garbo, whose Swedish accent suited and enhanced her personality and added to her mystique, Vilma's harsh, alienating and often difficult to understand dialect was just the opposite of her silent screen image with which her fans had become familiar and this film, her only full English language talkie, marked the end of her Hollywood career.
Both Robinson and Banky, along with supporting players Armetta, Davis and Sarno, appeared in MGM's German language version of this film, Die Sehnsucht jeder Frau (1930) (survival status unknown); Joseph Schildkraut replaced Robert Ames as Buck.