The well known faces appearing in the banquet scene are, in the order they appear on screen: Dorothy Sebastian, Louella Parsons, Estelle Taylor, Claire Windsor, Aileen Pringle, Karl Dane, George K. Arthur, Leatrice Joy, Renée Adorée, Rod La Rocque, Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Norma Talmadge, Douglas Fairbanks, Marion Davies, and William S. Hart.
This movie was one of the last silent films (synchronized score and sound effects) to be a major box-office hit.
In the slapstick scene, William Randolph Hearst refused to have Marion Davies hit in the face with a pie but compromised with director King Vidor to allow seltzer water to be used.