Trivia

This was Thelma Todd's last screen appearance before her controversial, suspicious death at age 29. She died on December 15, 1935, nearly two months before The Bohemian Girl (1936) was released. In an attempt to avoid associating the film with the notoriety surrounding the event, the plot was altered and many of her already-filmed scene clips were re-filmed and re-designed, differently. Her only featured scene that remains in the film is her musical number, "Heart of the Gypsy", near the film's beginning; even in this scene her singing voice is dubbed.

The film ends with the kind of grotesque gag (Stan is squashed in a press and Ollie is stretched on a rack) that Stan Laurel liked, but producer Hal Roach deeply hated.

Due to depiction of gypsies, the movie was banned in Nazi Germany.

Antonio Moreno's role in The Bohemian Girl (1936) was intended to be the love interest for Thelma Todd, who was to play the Queen of the Gypsies, but after she was found dead his role was rewritten to become the lover of Mae Busch, who was married to Oliver Hardy in the film.

A critic of the time wrote of this film, "Composer, Michael William Balfe wouldn't like what Laurel and Hardy have done to his play. Then again, being Irish, perhaps he would."