A then-unknown, but very recognizable Norma Shearer has an uncredited bit part as one of Ginger's boarding school chums.
Ginger's introduction to New York finds her on the upper open-air level of a double-decker bus, and the shot provides an excellent overview of 1920 NYC traffic along 5th Ave., moving southward from 42nd St. The New York Public Library, recognizable at first by the then-bright marble lions (named Patience and Fortitude and only nine years old at the time), comes into view on the left.
The role of Ginger called upon 25 year old Olive Thomas to play a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, eventually masquerading as a more mature "woman of experience. " Not surprisingly, she was more believable as the latter.