[1] Presumably when MGM remade Polly of the Circus in 1932 with Marion Davies, they still owned the screen rights inherited from the 1924 merger by Marcus Loew of the Metro, Goldwyn, and Louis B. Mayer studios.

[2] This film marks the first appearance of Slats, the lion mascot of Goldwyn Pictures and (after the company's 1924 merger) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

As described in a film magazine,[4] the parents of Polly (Marsh), a little horseback rider, are dead, and circus performers Jim (Playter) and Toby (Eldridge) are her sponsors.

The circus tents catch fire, and in the general confusion and wreckage, Douglas and Jim bring Polly to safety.

However, a copy of it was found amid a collection of silent films buried in permafrost in Dawson City, Yukon,[5] in 1978.