The screenplay by Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman, and Harry Tugend was based on stories by Eleanor Gates and Ralph Spence, and the 1917 Mary Pickford vehicle of the same name.

Worried that his daughter is spending too much time alone and not with other children her age, her father decides to send Barbara to boarding school.

She attracts the notice of struggling vaudeville performers, Jimmy Dolan and his wife Jerry, who live upstairs.

Finally, as it came close to Temple's legally allowed work hours for the day, they decided to let her do the routine by herself and dub it in with Haley's and Faye's taps recorded later.

"[3] Mack Gordon and Harry Revel wrote the film's songs: "When I'm with You", "Oh My Goodness", "You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby", "But Definitely", "Buy a Bar of Barry's", "Military Man", and "Peck's Theme".

Frank Nugent of The New York Times described the script as "formless and generally ridiculous" and the picture "virtually non-existent" but "as a display window for the ever-expanding Temple talents, it is entirely satisfying.

He lamented on behalf of Haley and Faye: "Short of becoming a defeated candidate for Vice President, we can think of no better way of guaranteeing one's anonymity than appearing in the moppet's films.