Screen rights to George Rosener’s 1929 play, She Got What She Wanted, were first acquired by Warner Bros. Pictures, according to the 5 April 1930 issue of Inside Facts of Stage and Screen. Months later, an item in the 30 August 1930 Motion Picture News announced that Tiffany Productions, Inc. planned to make a movie adaptation of the play, directed by James Cruze. Although Cruze had recently divorced actress Betty Compson, he cast her in the lead role of “Mahyna,” as stated in the 13 September 1930 Motion Picture News. The same day’s Exhibitor Herald-World reported that, during shooting, the film would be referred to by the temporary title, Discontent.
       On 17 September 1930, Variety announced that principal photography had commenced in Hollywood, CA. Shooting ended by 2 October 1930, according to that day’s Film Daily. Some location filming took place at a railroad station, as indicated by a 1 November 1930 Exhibitiors Herald World item, which noted that a large crane used to suspend microphones off camera drew “curious crowds” of onlookers.
       A planned release date of 1 November 1930 was cited in the 27 September 1930 Harrison’s Reports. To promote the film, James Cruze agreed to a tie-in campaign with the Mennen Shaving Cream Company, according to the 30 October 1930 Exhibitors Daily Review and Motion Pictures Today, which noted that advertisements would “consist of a production scene of the James Cruze Tiffany picture ‘She Got What She Wanted,’ along with a short biography of Cruze and a synopsis of the story.”