Celebrities caricatured are (in order): Jack Holt, Shirley Temple, Stan Laurel, Charles Laughton, Eddie Cantor, Harold Lloyd, W.C. Fields, Greta Garbo, Oliver Hardy, Harpo Marx, Charles Chaplin, Edna May Oliver, and Clark Gable.
Originally, Will Rogers was to be one of the polo players, but died in a plane accident before principal photography began and was replaced by Charles Chaplin.
This is one of six Mickey Mouse shorts that plays in the Main Street Cinema at Disneyland.
Originally there was a scene where the Grasshopper from The Grasshopper and the Ants (1934) made a cameo laughing in the stands with Mae West. This was cut for unknown reasons.
Donald Duck is the only main character to speak in "Mickey's Polo Team" from 1936. He says "Polo" all the time. Jenny the Burro, Donald's donkey is also voiced by Clarence Nash as well.