 Wallace Beery had worked with both Gable and Harlow in "The Secret Six" (1931), in which Gable and Harlow had smaller supporting roles and Beery played the lead.Beery and Gable also appeared together later the same year in the naval aviation film titled "Hell Divers" (1931), this time with Gable's part almost as large as top-billed star Beery's.The pairing of Gable and Harlow was so popular after "Red Dust" (1932) that they wound up making six films together, with the final one being finished posthumously after Harlow's untimely death.