The film screened in the US for the first time since its theatrical run in March 2012 at Cinefest in Syracuse, NY. This version was made by combining a print from Australia (with no soundtrack) and surviving Vitaphone soundtrack discs that had been preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
This was the sixth feature-length talkie to be produced in color, after On with the Show! (1929) and Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929). Three other all-color talkies were in production at the same time, all of them musicals. It was the first such project that was not a musical, and the first not to be produced by Warner Bros.
Tiffany Pictures kept running out of money. It even kept two sets of costumes available in different places so that filming could continue if the creditors decided to seize one set.
This production was a huge gamble. Tiffany Pictures was a "Poverty Row" studio and sank all its assets into this film, which turned out to be very successful.
Negatives from the defunct Tiffany Pictures collection were most likely used for the burning of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind (1939), as nitrate ignites easily and there was a lot of it lying around. According to historian Jonas Nordin, the original negative for this film was probably among them, which would account for its loss.