This film's working titles were Now I'm a Lady and How Am I Doin'? According to a news item in DV, Paramount tried to borrow Cesar Romero for the male lead, but Universal turned down the deal, claiming he was needed there. DV also reported that Mae West visited the Sherman Indian School in Riverside, CA to handpick a Native American for an important role in this film. Male students lined up on the football field, where West looked them over, principally for good looks, as the part required a "looker for whom the society dames in the film will fall." Although Vladimar Bykoff appears last in the opening credits of the viewed print, he is not listed in the end credits and it is unclear what his character name is. According to a FD news item, Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal wrote a song called "Love Is Love in Any Woman's Heart" for this film, but it was not in the viewed print. MPD remarked that the best shot in the film shows "Cleo Borden's" race horse, "Cactus," being put to bed in her palatial Buenos Aires home.
       According to files in the MPAA/PCA Collection at the AMPAS Library, on 19 Dec 1934, Joseph I. Breen, Director of the Production Code Administration, wrote to Paramount distribution executive John Hammell after reading this film's first script with this reaction: "...basically it seems to be in conformity with the requirements of the Production Code." However, Breen cautioned Hammell against any indication of prostitution, and recommended that the studio change the underlined portion of Mae West's line, "I was ashamed of myself for the way I lived." He also forbade the filmmakers to show actual scenes of cattle being branded, and recommended that they change the nationality of Ivan Lebedoff's character from an Argentinian: "As you know, the Argentines are particularly sensitive about being characterized as gigolos, and inasmuch as part of your picture is laid in Buenos Aires, any such characterization would probably appear to them to be doubly offensive." On 4 Jan 1935, François B. de Valdez was hired as technical advisor on South American sequences. The film was approved on 1 Apr 1935. Breen later wrote to Will H. Hays, head of the PCA, defending Paramount's cooperation with the Code: "The studio [has] conscientiously avoided the more serious difficulties that have attended some of this star's [Mae West] previous pictures." Breen did receive some criticism for passing the film, however. E. Robb Zaring, superintendent of the Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, wrote Breen a letter of protest on 31 May 1935, which read: "I have not seen the screen nor will I. The NYT pronounces it a vulgar, demoralizing exhibition....this play was produced after the blare of reform. I agree that [much] good has been done--thanks to the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church. But what I cannot understand is how this particular actor who stands for a particular phase of morals should have been permitted to put another over on the American youth." Breen responded to Zaring by quoting a radio broadcast by the motion picture bureau of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae in which it placed this film on its endorsed list--the first time it had ever endorsed a Mae West film. The federation attributed the endorsement to the work of the Legion of Decency. On 12 Oct 1935, MPH printed a letter from J. E. Stocker, of the Myrtle Theatre in Detroit, which read: "More pictures like this and it won't be long before the League of Decency will be on the warpath again....The League of Decency were a great influence in bringing about the making of more wholesome pictures which helped the entire motion picture industry toward greater prosperity." Lyrics to the songs in the film were substantially changed in order to meet the requirements of the Code. The chorus to "Now I'm a Lady" originally read: "I used to have a lot of sweet sugar daddies/As much as seven or nine/But now I'm a lady, I see them one at a time./I used to baby all those sweet sugar daddies/To keep my cloud silver lined/But now I'm a lady, I get my sugar refined." Breen's reaction to these lyrics was as follows: "As we read it, it is the boasting of a woman of loose morals who has had any number of men in her time, and has climbed over them to the top of the ladder where she has finally married respectability." Breen told Paramount that if the lyrics were included in the film, the PCA could not pass it.