Frank Faylen plays a cab driver in a scene with James Stewart. Six years later Faylen again plays a cab driver opposite Stewart in It's A Wonderful Life (1946).
When Linda blows out Carrell's match in the bar, she's reacting to the old "three on a match" superstition.
The original play by S.N. Behrman opened out of town in Indianapolis, Indiana, on 31 March 1939. It then opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 243 W. 47th St., on April 17, 1939 and ran for 185 performances until September.
In another connection to It's A Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart has the same line of dialogue delivered almost identically in both. When Rosalind Russell proposes to him in Central Park in this movie; and when Donna Reed loses her robe and is hiding in a hydrangea, in Wonderful Life; each time an incredulous Stewart proclaims, "This is a very interesting situation!"
Last screen appearance of Genevieve Tobin (Amanda); she retired to become a full-time wife to director Keighley, whom she'd recently married.