Although Jane Wyman had no trouble faking the fingering of a dummy violin, Olivia de Havilland had to have someone do it for her. De Havilland was forced to do this picture under threat of suspension from the studio and had no patience in learning the technique. In all her close-ups, the arm doing the fingering belonged to a professional hidden from view, or the fingers were hidden from view. She controlled only the bow.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 16, 1941 with Olivia de Havilland and Charles Winninger reprising their film roles.
First Amercian film for German director Curtis Bernhardt, who fled Germany in 1933 when the Nazis came to power. He made films in France and England before coming to the United States when war broke out in Europe.
Based on the Austrian film Episode (1935) which was a sequel to Masquerade in Vienna (1934), which in turn was remade by MGM as Escapade (1935).