One of four silent films Greta Garbo made in the year 1929. Sound had already overtaken the film industry, but Garbo and Charles Chaplin were the two primary holdouts in the transition -Chaplin because he was resisting the shift and Garbo because she was redoubling her efforts to master English, something the native Swede was never pressed to do in the silent era. Garbo made the most silent films (seven in all) of any Hollywood star following the advent of sound in 1927. As a testament to MGM's most bankable star, audiences still turned out for her films despite the fact that silents had been rendered obsolete virtually overnight. She would not make her talkie debut until one full year later, in the carefully chosen Anna Christie (1930), a prestige film that adroitly cast her as a Swede, thus allowing the studio to hedge its bets on her successful transition to talkies.
Originally filmed in the full frame silent screen ratio, when a sound track was added for the sound-on-film version, the left side of the image had to be cropped to allow room for it, and this is the print which survives today and is shown on Turner Classic Movies.
Robert Montgomery and Joel McCrea, both at the start of their careers, make uncredited appearances in this film.
According to one suburban newspaper, this film was "for adults only" in the city of Chicago.
In a list of party guests, the name right above Arden Stuart is Leslie Howard. It would not have stood out at the time, because Howard would not make his first American feature (in which he played the leading role) until the following year.