Kino Lorber films has released a Blu-Ray version of the film from an existing 35 mm print with missing scenes and the color hand tinted segments restored.
The showing on 12/5/32 was a preview and had no hand-tinted sequences. The film was scheduled for a 12/25/32 release nationally, but it was held up so that some sequences could be tinted.
MGM purchased Tiffany's nitrate original film negative library and burned the collection during the burning of Atlanta sequence in Gone with the Wind (1939).
The "Tonart Studios" where the story takes place were actually locations within the California Tiffany Studios in Hollywood where the production was filmed in November 1932.
This film features much of the principal cast of the previous year's wildly profitable and successful Dracula (1931), including David Manners, Edward Van Sloan and Bela Lugosi. The studio sought to emphasize this connection to "Dracula" , most notably by giving Lugosi top billing despite his small supporting role.