In the scene where Barbara Stanwyck, playing the new bride, was supposed to be carried across the threshold by her husband, she and director Robert Z. Leonard cooked up a practical joke and draped her body with heavy chains under the mink coat she wore, making it impossible for Van Heflin to pick her up.
In Britain the letters B.F. have a vulgar connotation, so the title was changed in the U.K. to the simpler "Polly Fulton."
This film did poorly at the box office, resulting in a loss of $565,000 ($5.7M in 2017) for MGM according to studio records.
When Tom reads in the newspaper about the attempted assassination of President-elect Roosevelt, that would put the date as February 15, 1933.
"B.F.'s Daughter" stars two performers who won Oscars in competitive acting categories, Van Heflin and Charles Coburn; and two who received Oscar nominations, Barbara Stanwyck and Spring Byington. Stanwyck received an honorary Oscar in 1982.
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