Producer Charles Rogers bought the rights to the story for Universal, which originally attracted attention as a newspaper serial called '1011 Fifth Avenue' by Eric Hatch, and the word got round that the script, developed by Hatch with Morrie Ryskind, was a hot one. This attracted William Powell, who'd recently come up in a big way with The Thin Man, and it was he who suggested ex-wife Lombard would be great as his opposite number. Thus he was loaned from MGM and her from Paramount.
Use of French between some of the Forgotten Men make me wonder if they are WWI France veterans. For some reason I found it important to note the family's residence is at 1011 Fifth Avenue, as in the serial.
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