Myrna Loy wrote in her autobiography that she was wearing a flesh-tinted body suit in the supposed nude scene.
The production was interrupted by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that hit the Los Angeles area on the afternoon of March 10, 1933.
Ramon Novarro immediately left the U.S. for a singing tour in Europe on March 24, 1933, shortly after filming wrapped.
In wide shots of their characters riding across the desert on camel-back, Myrna Loy and Louise Closser Hale were doubled by Audrey Scott.
This film's television premiere took place in Los Angeles Thursday 4 July 1957 on KTTV (Channel 11); it first aired in Cleveland 19 August 1957 on KGW (Channel 3), in Peoria 5 December 1957 on WTVH (Channel 19), in Norfolk VA 10 December 1957 on WTAR (Channel 3), in Spokane 23 December 1957 on KHQ (Channel 6), in San Francisco 17 January 1958 on KGO (Channel 7), in Honolulu 6 February 1958 on KHVH (Channel 13), in Hartford CT 8 April 1958 on WHCT (Channel 18), in Windsor ON (serving Detroit) 1 October 1958 on CKLW (Channel 9), in Tampa 30 December 1958 on WFLA (Channel 8), and in New York City 26 January 1959 on WCBS (Channel 2).