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- After The Mad Miss Manton (1938), this film, and You Belong to Me (1941), Henry Fonda would always refer to Barbara Stanwyck as his favorite leading lady.
- With so many people on the set, Preston Sturges dressed eccentrically to stand out. He usually wore either a brightly colored beret or a hat with a feather. This sartorial splendor led to him being dubbed the worst-dressed man in Hollywood.
- The book Charles reads during his first dinner aboard ship is entitled “Are Snakes Necessary.” It is a spoof of “Is Sex Necessary” by James Thurber and E.B. White.
- Preston Sturges wrote the screenplay specifically for Barbara Stanwyck. He had promised her a great film while working on a previous movie.
- The scene in which Eve agrees to divorce Charles only if he tells her to her face that he wants the divorce was taken from Preston Sturges’ own life. He made the same demand of his second wife, Eleanor Hutton, whose wealthy family thought he had married her only for her money.
- Despite the story credit to Monckton Hoffe, a legend persists that Preston Sturges got the idea for this film after he ran into one of his ex-wives and didn’t recognize her.
- The working title was Two Bad Hats, the title of Monckton Hoffe’s original story.
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