Fanny Brice, Will Rogers and Marilyn Miller were scheduled to make cameo appearances in this film. But since Brice was appearing in a play by Ziegfeld rival David Belasco, Miller was under contract to Warner Bros. and Rogers under contract to Fox, they did not appear in the film.
This is the first talkie movie to utter the word "Damn" uncensored in the Pre-code era. Later movies would use the word "Damn" including "Romeo and Juliet" 1936, "Pygmalion" 1938 and the famous movie "Gone with the Wind" 1939 which received recognition for the using the word "Damn" uncensored.
Eddie Cantor, Helen Morgan and Rudy Vallee are listed early in the credits, and are NOT in the comprehensive cast list presented later. Because of this, the IMDb cast list uses all actor names in order of being printed in the credits.
The film entered the public domain on January 1, 1958, just before the rights to the film were set to be acquired by EMKA, Ltd., a subsidiary of MCA which completed its purchase of most of Paramount's pre-1950 sound feature films in February of that year and then later purchased Universal Studios in 1962, incorporating EMKA's library into its new subsidiary. Paramount failed to renew the film's copyright in either 1956 or 1957. Kino Lorber released the 1988 restoration under license from Universal on DVD and Blu-ray in 2019.
Johnny Weissmuller's film debut playing Adonis in a musical tableau wearing what was considered minimal male attire by 1929 standards.