Many top Paramount stars are seen in connection with the fictional Majestic motion picture studio, including Maurice Chevalier (outside the studio gates), Gary Cooper and Tallulah Bankhead (walking around the studio lot), and Jack Oakie, Charles Ruggles, Clive Brook, Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, and Sylvia Sidney (attending the premiere of "Wide Open Spaces"). Though Stuart Erwin and Joan Blondell were the film's true stars, its cameo cast is still a potent attraction.
Harry Leon Wilson's novel was first filmed by Famous Players-Lasky as Merton of the Movies (1924), produced and directed by James Cruze and starring Glenn Hunter and Viola Dana. M-G-M bought the rights to Merton of the Movies (1947) from Paramount, and released a film of the same name directed by Robert Alton and starring Red Skelton and Virginia O'Brien.
The play, "Merton of the Movies" upon which this film is based, opened on Broadway at the Cort Theatre, 138 W. 48th St., on November 13, 1922 and ran for 392 performances until October 20, 1923.
The 60¢ that Gill deems expensive for the cost of a plate of soup would be equivalent to $10.70 in 2021.