Director Robert F. McGowan approached June Marlowe for this role when he spotted her in a Los Angeles department store. He later suggested the she wear a blond wig, to match co-star 'Jackie Cooper''s light-coloured hair (she was a brunette in real life).
Jackie Cooper revealed in a television interview that, for his crying scene, his grandmother pinched his leg several times and slapped to get him to cry. Cooper said this was one of several abusive incidents that occurred between himself and his grandmother during his Our Gang tenure.