This version's music score is an adaptation of the one composed by Alfred Newman for the 1937 version.
One of the changes from the 1937 version is changing the character of the Bishop to a Cardinal. Long-time MGM contract player Lewis Stone played the part. Ironically, Stone played both leads in the 1922 version of The Prisoner of Zenda (1922).
The original New York production of The Prisoner of Zenda opened at the Lyceum Theater on September 4, 1895.