Adaptation Displacement: Though based on a well-regarded play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, the movie is better known today.
Part of that is due to how much of the play was changed for the movie; Kaufman at one point retorted, "Why don't they just call it Screen Door?" But he eventually admitted the movie was better.
Fair for Its Day: While today, it may not seem like the movie goes far enough in condemning the Casting Couch activities of Anthony Powell (only hinted at, of course, because of The Hays Code), it doesn't paint Powell in a flattering light either, and clearly, we are supposed to be rooting for Terry when she exposes his charade.
Memetic Mutation: "The calla lilies are in bloom again" became a favorite of Hepburn imitators.
Hilarious in Hindsight: That line was lifted from the play The Lake, a play Hepburn had appeared in on Broadway, and which was a flop (it's the one about which Dorothy Parker said Hepburn's expressions ran the gamut from A to B).
