Written and produced as a star vehicle for Anna May Wong. Earlier the same year she had been rejected for the lead in The Good Earth (1937), a role she strove to land. Losing the part to a white actress was a bitter pill for her to swallow.
The airplane seen at the beginning of the film is a 1929 Lockheed Vega 5C, registration NC48M. It was owned by Paul Mantz, who supplied aviation services to the motion picture industry for decades. This plane can also be seen in Wings in the Dark (1935).
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
Lambert's Van and Storage opened in Los Angeles in 1933 and quickly became one of the premier moving companies in the area. The company had one of the first moving licenses in California and continued to trade into the 21st century, until its merger with another family member's company. Today it is known as Rene's Van and Storage.
Final film of Mrs. Wong Wing.