The title credits on the present surviving version, as well as the anachronistically more modern music behind them, were designed in the 1950s for the television release. The original material and musical accompaniment begins with the first title card, "New York was originally purchased from the Indians..."
In the initial scene as Flo (Winnie Lightner) sells sheet music, she begins to shout out the titles of the songs. The first one is "Singin' in the Bathtub" which Lightner introduced in Show of Shows (1929), followed by songs from Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) in which she also appeared.
" The Life Of The Party " was the eighth most popular movie at the U.S. box office for 1930.
Although filmed entirely in 2-strip Technicolor, only B&W prints are known to have survived.
Orginally filmed as a full musical with more songs, all but one number was cut from U.S. released prints as audiences had become "tired" of musicals when this picture was released in late 1930. It was released intact as originally intended for international audiences, but none of those prints have survived.