"The Stolen Jools" is this film's original title. It was made by the National Variety Artists (NVA) as part of a charity campaign and distributed free to theaters in 1931. After the showing a live speaker would come out and request donations. The film was rediscovered in 1972 in Britain, where it had been released in 1932 as "The Slippery Pearls," one of the Masquers Club comedy series for RKO. Subsequently a U.S. print was discovered and the film's true title, origin and purpose were at last known.
Features seven Oscar winners for Best Actor and Best Actress: Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Victor McLaglen, Norma Shearer, and Loretta Young.
To modern eyes, there is a certain irony in a film raising funds for tuberculosis research being sponsored by Chesterfield cigarettes.
The juveniles who appear in this were the then cast members of the Hal Roach "Our Gang" ("Little Rascals") comedy shorts.
The individual studios produced their own segments in their own studios with their own directors free of charge.