Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle got the assignment to direct this film because William Randolph Hearst felt guilty about how his newspapers had savaged Arbuckle during his three murder/rape trials in 1922 and ruined his career, despite his eventual acquittal.
Second film in which Marion Davies ice skates. She previously learned to skate for the now-lost film The Young Diana (1922).
Barred from working under his own name by Hollywood censor Will Hays after his 1922 scandal, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle deliberately selected a pseudonym, Will B. Goodrich, that spelled out "Will Be Good".
The Dutch village, complete with windmills and canals, was constructed on the MGM lot.