Although obviously not credited as such, this is very clearly a knock-off of George M. Cohan's play "Seven Keys to Baldpate," which RKO had just filmed the previous year --- Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935) starring Gene Raymond. This popular play has been transformed into five feature films. The other four are: Seven Keys to Baldpate (1917) starring the playwright, Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925), Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929) starring Richard Dix, and Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947).
Two years after the release of Snowed Under, Genevieve Tobin married Warner Brothers contract director William Keighley. She'd been directed by him in Easy to Love (1934) and would work with him again on Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939) and No Time for Comedy (1940) --- her final film. She retired from the screen at age 41, stayed married to Keighley until his death in 1984, and lived herself until 1995.
Snowed Under (1936) was based on the story "Snowed Under" by Lawrence Saunders in Liberty (publication undetermined).
As this was a typical Warner Brothers studio programmer, the members of the cast had already appeared together in other films. George Brent and Genevieve Tobin, for instance, had worked together on The Goose and the Gander (1935); Brent and Glenda Farrell on The Keyhole (1933); Brent and Patricia Ellis on 42nd Street (1933) and Stranded (1935); and Farrell and Tobin on Dark Hazard (1934).
The play Seven Keys to Baldpate and Snowed Under (1936) have very similar plot-lines. Seven Keys to Baldpate was about a novelist who makes a bet with a wealthy friend that he can write a 10,000 word story within 24 hours. He retires to a summer mountain resort named Baldpate Inn, in the dead of winter, and locks himself in, but has constant interruptions in the form a stream of uninvited visitors.
Snowed Under is about a playwright who is working under a tight deadline from his theatrical agent. He becomes snowed-in in his remote cabin with two ex-wives and a girlfriend, and other uninvited visitors.
Snowed Under is about a playwright who is working under a tight deadline from his theatrical agent. He becomes snowed-in in his remote cabin with two ex-wives and a girlfriend, and other uninvited visitors.