The dummy Otto was a hand carved basswood Frank Marshall figure. The same man who designed Edgar Bergen's famous characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.
Color sequence(s) have not survived, except in black and white.
The "Gaga Bird" production number is presumed lost.
The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
The 12 Sep 1929 premiere at the Selwyn Theatre in New York City's Broadway district. A. Griffith Grey, formerly of D.W. Griffith, Inc., was the new general manager of Cruze's production company, placing him in charge of "presentation and road show activities." The event was heralded with a "living billboard" on the roof of the theater, described in the 16 Sep 1929 Film Daily as a giant spider web with young women posing as flies, while chorines sang and danced on the rooftop below. The spider web was a reference to "The Web of Love," a featured musical number in the film. Although city officials complained about traffic problems caused by the billboard, the 12 Oct 1929 Exhibitors Herald-World reported that a local judge disagreed, saying it attracted tourism to Broadway.
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