 McCarey wanted her for the film because he thought the "incongruity" of a "genteel" actress like Dunne in screwball comedy was funny, and she was asked to appear in it even though Delmar was still working on a script.Dunne was attached to the picture in mid-February 1937, although commitments to other stage and film projects meant production could not begin for several months.Dunne was paid $75,000 ($ in dollars) for her work.