The film was lost for decades until it was found in the late 1990s. The sole known 35mm nitrate print was discovered in an Italian archive. The print had been donated by actor Antonio Moreno who starred in Colleen Moore's Synthetic Sin (1929). The following message is included at the end of the newly preserved film: "Warner Bros. gratefully acknowledges the following people who made the re-discovery and preservation of this film possible: Joseph Yranski, Ron Hutchinson, The Vitaphone Project, Matteo Pavesi of Cineteca Italiana de Milano, Gian Luca Farinelli of Cineteca de Bologna."
Musicians identified playing on soundtrack include Jimmy Dorsey, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, Phil Napoleon.
In September 1928 Warner Bros. Pictures purchased a majority interest in First National Pictures, and from that point on all "First National" productions were actually made under Warner Bros. control, even though the two companies continued to retain separate identities until the mid-'30s, after which time "A Warner Bros.-First National Picture" was often used.
Deleted scenes included one in which Pert goes to visit her sister, and an extra scene at the end in which she calls up her father to tell him she just married Winthrop Peabody, Jr.
A young Jean Harlow appears on the rooftop bench at Junior's Second Party, and a young Andy Devine is a background extra at The Boiler restaurant.
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