Trivia

The perfume Toni receives is a bottle of vintage 1928 "Les Bourgeons" from Ybry - a real French luxury perfume and fashion house. This perfume came in a six-sided Baccarat crystal bottle with a matching fitted green box. With the ad for the perfume seen earlier in the Vogue magazine Toni was reading, this could be considered an early example of blatant product placement - and for a very expensive item, out of reach for the vast majority of movie goers during the Depression.

Parks and Perrin are depicted arriving by air in a 1931 Perth Amboy (Brunner-Winkle) Bird CK, registration NC980M. New, it cost $3,500 (over $70,700 in 2023). As of 2023 this aircraft is still registered and is airworthy - one of four such planes remaining in the U.S., out of 50 CK models produced. Only about 240 of all variants were made.

Near the beginning of the picture, Toni is reading the December 1, 1931 edition of Vogue magazine.

FOREWORD: "This story deals with a certain phase of newspaper work. The STANDARD DICTIONARY defines news as: 'Fresh information concerning something that has recently taken place.' But quite frequently events occur which by their nature are so sensational --- from the angle of sex, violence, the standing of the parties involved, or what not ---- that they are reported in some newspapers long after there is any 'fresh information' and when nothing at all 'has recently taken place.' Legitimate newspapers recognize this fact. They report real developments, and stop there. But others, pandering to the lowest tastes of the public, prolonged such cases to the last degree. When news fails, they try to make news. As long as a shred of carcass remains, they feast upon it. Naturally, such journalistic scavenger work attracts only the lowest type of newspaper man --- tipsters, stool pigeons, the base and the irresponsible. 'THE FAMOUS FERGUSON CASE' is built upon the contrast between legitimate journalism and unprincipled scandal-mongering."

The cigars the New York reporters pilfer off the county prosecutor's desk is a real brand sold at that time called "Van Dyck".