The majority of the cast and crew from the film left Ensenada, Mexico, aboard the SS Emma Alexander on July 24, 1932, and arrived in Los Angeles, California, the same day, according to the ship's List of United States citizens. The ship's manifest lists them as "Movie Company" and contains 42 members of the cast and crew already identified as working on Hypnotized, including Mack Sennett, Hattie McDaniel, Marjorie Beebe, Wallace Ford, Spec O'Donnell and many others. Eleven persons are listed on the ship's papers who were with the cast/crew, but who have not yet been identified as having worked on the film.
George Moran and Charles Mack were a vaudeville team that performed in blackface and were billed as "The Two Black Crows". Both perform in blackface in this film.
Reportedly, twenty different writers worked on the script, running up an unusually high bill of $100,000 in pre-production costs.