When Carole Lombard hears the jungle drums she makes the startling remark (for a not overly sophisticated picture about lust in the jungle) that the rhythm reminds her of Ravel's "Bolero." It's a bit less surprising, though, when one considers it as a bit of advance promotion: Lombard's next picture was Bolero, in which the Ravel piece is used for the climactic dance number.
Paramount originally bought the play "Hangman's Whip" on which "White Woman" is based for their then new German import Dorothea Wieck of "Mädchen in Uniform" fame.
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Sponsor resistance was strong because of the pre-code aspects of the story, so its airings were few and far between. Its earliest documented telecasts took place in Milwaukee Tuesday 25 February 1960 on WITI (Channel 6) and in Johnstown 28 June 1960 on WJAC (Channel 6). It was released on DVD 9 December 2014 as part of the Universal Vault Series.
Percy Kilbride's film debut.
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