MGM's first attempt to promote Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante as a comedy team. The other two pairings of Keaton and Durante are Speak Easily (1932) and What-No Beer? (1933).
Patricia says her limo that Elmer wrecked cost 150,000 francs. That would equate to about $5900 at the time or nearly $140,000 in 2025.
Charlotte Greenwood, Buster Keaton's co-star from Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931), originally was slated to take a character role opposite him again here, but she was not available for filming.
The play "Her Cardboard Lover" opened in New York at the Empire Theater on 21 March 1927 and closed in August 1927 after 152 performances. Its stars were Leslie Howard and Jeanne Eagels. That play was based on a French version, "Dans sa candeur naive" by Jacques Deval, which opened in Paris on 13 January 1926.
According to a contemporary article in The Hollywood Reporter, Robert Montgomery originally was cast as the lead in August 1931 before being replaced by Buster Keaton the following month.