Jim Ameche played Alexander Graham Bell, while his brother played him in the more famous film biography of the inventor of the telephone.
One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.
The Marx Brothers are never seen together in this film.
This is Ronald Colman's final film.
This is the final film completed by the Marx Brothers.
When Ronald Colman was asked if The Story of Mankind (1957) was based on a book, he replied, "Yes. But they are using only the notes on the dust jacket."