The segment by the Marx Brothers, a promotion for their film Monkey Business (1931) originally filmed for inclusion in Paramount on Parade (1930), is a re-working of the first act of their first successful Broadway play "I'll Say She Is". Except for a few name changes and additional gags, the scene is almost completely the same as the script used for the stage production. To date, this segment and the Napoleon sketch in The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians (1970) are the only the film adaptations of material from that play.
This film would be shown in cinemas during "Paramount Week", an annual exploitation campaign available for exhibitors of that studio's products, held during the first week in September. It never received a regular theatrical release.
This is the only film where the text inside the stars of the Paramount logo is "A Paramount Program". "Picture" or "Release" were more commonly used instead of "Program" in the logo.
The title is taken from a biography of one of Paramount's founders, Adolph Zukor, that was written by Will Irwin in 1928.
An inside joke for the choice of music played during the clip of Harold Lloyd aboard a boat: "True to the Navy" is used, from "Paramount on Parade," released a few months before this promotional film, in which Clara Bow sang the tune.