The upcoming film was announced in the 20 Dec 1924 Moving Picture World as a replacement for another Famous Players-Lasky Corp. production, provisionally titled The Gate Opens, both of which were intended as starring vehicles for actress Bebe Daniels. Studio executives believed that The Manicure Girl had better commercial possibilities.
       A news item in the 28 Feb 1925 Exhibitors Trade Review credited writer Jeanie Macpherson as a collaborator on the screen adaptation of Frederic and Fanny Hatton’s original story. Other sources attributed the scenario exclusively to Townsend Martin. Although Frank Tuttle had been confirmed as director, the 4 March 1925 Var claimed that Edward Sutherland might possibly take over the project.
       Principal photography began soon after at Paramount Studios in Astoria, Queens, NY, as stated in the 21 Mar 1925 Moving Picture World. Two weeks later, the 4 Apr 1925 issue noted that production was drawing to a close, and included Victor Moore among the cast. Following the completion of filming, Bebe Daniels told the Jun 1925 Motion Picture that location shots were made late at night in New York City, when there was little or no traffic along Broadway and Fifth Avenue. She also complained that the schedule required cast and crew members to sleep during the day.
       Articles in the 7 Jun 1925 Film Daily and Jun 1925 Photoplay revealed that The Manicure Girl was the first American production to employ the gyroscopic camera, a British invention that “neutralizes the motion of walking so there are no jolts in the film.” Film Daily described a scene in which Daniels walked “from booth to booth in the beauty shop,” stopping to change linens and chat with the attendants. A standard hand-cranked camera would have required more than eighteen individual set-ups over several hours, while the electrically powered gyroscopic camera allowed director of photography J. Roy Hunt to follow the actress in real time, capturing the sequence in four minutes. The camera also enabled Tuttle to close production four days ahead of schedule, earning him a cash bonus from Famous Players-Lasky, as stated in the 24 Jun 1925 Var.
       The Manicure Girl opened in mid-Jun 1925 at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City, followed by an 18 Jul 1925 Los Angeles, CA, debut at the Metropolitan Theatre. Two days after the latter opening, the 20 Jul 1925 LAT noted that the picture was outshone by the preceding stage show, while the 29 Jul 1925 Var dismissed the entire engagement as “a flop.” As of May 2020, there are no extant copies of the film.