While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.

The film was a starring vehicle for actress Marion Davies and actor William Haines and included notable cameo appearances by many of the film personalities of the day, including stars Charlie Chaplin (who appears twice), Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart and John Gilbert, and writer Elinor Glyn.

Show People features no audible dialog but was released with a Movietone soundtrack with a synchronized musical score and sound effects.

In 2003, Show People was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

After some initial disillusionment, Peggy meets Billy Boone in a studio commissary; he tells her to show up at his set if she wants work.

Peggy's co-star André Telfair tries to comfort her, telling her she has graduated from "cheap comedy" and must develop a new star persona among the "elite" in Hollywood.

While having a luncheon banquet, Peggy is summoned to the producer's office, where she is handed telegrams from theater bookers, all of whom deride her dramatic performances.

This film featured a theme song entitled "Cross Roads" which was composed by William Axt, David Mendoza and Raymond Klages.

The main character of Peggy Pepper, who becomes the self-important dramatic star, Patricia Pepoire, was based on the careers of silent divas Gloria Swanson and Mae Murray.

[3] The film has a remarkable number of cameo appearances from some of the top stars of the day, including Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, Norma Talmadge, Leatrice Joy, Lew Cody, Eleanor Boardman, and others.

[4] In one of the film's more famous sequences, the script originally called for Davies to get hit in the face with a pie after being tricked appearing in a slapstick comedy movie.