When Harry hurts his hand playing baseball with the Washington Senators, his glove is knocked off of his left hand and he holds the index finger on that hand in obvious pain. Immediately afterward, when he is having difficulty playing the piano because of his injury, he has a bandage on his right index finger.
Eileen Percy was not an understudy in "The Ramblers" (1926-27). She had two Broadway credits (1915, 1917) and was a star of silent films throughout the 1920s.
When Bert and Jessie are dancing to the Husband and Wife dance number, they toss everything off the kitchen table. The toaster is pushed off the back of the table onto the floor. In the next instant, it has disappeared from view.
The stills of the The Marx Brothers (three rather than four) outside the opening of Animal Crackers (Broadway, 1928) is actually from Les Marx au grand magasin (1941).
Eileen Percy is shown leaving "The Ramblers" (1926-27) for Hollywood and returning for the opening of "Animal Crackers" (1928-29) as a movie star, with her film Flirt (1922) playing across the street. Most of her career was in silent films and a few early talkies; not in musicals, as shown in this picture.
Most of the movie is set in the 1920s, but the fashions and interiors are late-1940s. Also, in a bit of prescience, Debbie Reynolds, in her number impersonating Helen Kane (the boop-boop-a-doop girl), is dressed exactly like Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the early-1960s - pale pink suit, pearls, white gloves, and little hat on the back of the head.
When Bert, Charlie, and Harry are talking about the play never being produced, there are several pictures of MGM stars on the wall. From left to right, they are Judy Garland, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, and [unidentified]. The time period in the movie was, at that point, the mid-1930s, but those photos were all from the late-1940s.
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