One of the first films to show a woman with a shoulder strap purse.
According to Ida Lupino biographer William Donati, director Vincent Sherman was summoned to the office of Warner Bros. studio chief Jack L. Warner--to whom he was under contract at the time--and accused of having an affair with Warner's star Joan Crawford. Sherman, who had been at the studio since 1937, replied that what he did on his own time was none of Warner's business. Warner ordered the director to stop shooting so many close-ups of the actress, an order Sherman disobeyed. Warner used that refusal as a pretext to terminate Sherman's contract. The director eventually found out that Jack Warner had purposely provoked the confrontation, because he thought Sherman was a Communist. When that turned out not to be true, Sherman was rehired by the studio eight years later to do The Young Philadelphians (1959).
Dr. James Merrill and Agatha Reed recite the beginning of the poem by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892), "Good-Bye My Fancy," which gave the title to this movie: "Good-bye my Fancy! / Farewell dear mate, dear love! / I'm going away, I know not where, / Or to what fortune, or whether I may ever see you again, / So Good-bye my Fancy."
Instrumentals from the song 'I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan' serves as incidental music throughout the film. Written in 1929 by Arthur Schwartz and with lyrics by Howard Dietz, the song was featured in the films "The Little Show" and "The Band Wagon" and served as incidental music in "The Big Sleep."