Renée Adorée was ill with tuberculosis during filming, and the strenuous nature of filming aggravated her condition so much that she suffered hemorrhaging twice on set, almost shutting down production. This would be her last film before she passed in 1933.
None of the Technicolor sequences, as described in the New York Times review in October 1930, originally totaling 720 feet (220 m), (approximately 8 minutes), including at least one aria (Vesti la Giubba from Pagliacci) by Novarro, seem to have survived; they were missing from the 100 minute print telecast by TBS in 1988-1989 and by Turner Classic Movies at various times between 1997 and 2020.
A February 16, 1931 article in the Republican-Journal of Ogdensburg, NY mentions the film was the first "talkie" shown at the St. Lawrence State Hospital. Both patients and hospital staff watched it, along with a newsreel and a comedy, in an auditorium filled to capacity on Sunday, February 15, 1931.
Renée Adorée was cast at the insistence of her friend and frequent costar Ramon Novarro, who probably didn't know how ill she was. When she collapsed during production, Novarro offered to re-shoot their scenes together with another actress at his own expense. But Adorée was prevailed upon to finish her role, which she managed to do on one evening's shoot before collapsing again.
The only film in which Renée Adorée performed a dance number. Sadly she was ailing from tuberculosis and it shows in her labored footwork. A double was used for a couple of long shots.