This movie marks what may be the very first feature-film appearance of future superstar Ava Gardner, listed here as an uncredited "Young Socialite," though as a mere background extra it's almost impossible to identify her.
Very strangely, no one in the film, especially her life-long flame Harry Pulham, ever comments on the extreme oddity of the distinctly male first name of heroine Marvin Myles. Nor, despite her obvious European accent and her claim that she wasn't born in the US, is her native country or ethnic background ever identified.
Although the film is based on John P. Marquand's novel of the same title, originally when it was serialized in McCall's magazine from September 1940 to January 1941, it was titled "Gone Tomorrow." Soon after, it sold more than 200,000 copies in its first six months of publication in book form.
Van Heflin and Charles Coburn later co-starred in another film version of a John P. Marquand novel, B.F.'s Daughter (1948).