> The Court Jester was written and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, who worked on the screenplay for over a year. The film was released through Paramount Pictures and produced by Danny Kaye's own production company, Dena Enterprises, which he started with his wife, Sylvia Fine, in 1953. The film was shot in color and the widescreen process called VistaVision, which had been created by Paramount engineers in 1953. Interior scenes were filmed on the Paramount lot in Hollywood and some exteriors were shot on location in Palos Verdes, California in the fall of 1955.

> In order to get men who could perform the high speed marching maneuvers needed for the knighting ceremony, a Civil War reenactment group called The American Legion Zouaves of Richard F. Smith Post No. 29, Jackson, Michigan was hired as extras.

> The music for the film was composed by Sammy Cahn and by Kaye's wife, Sylvia Fine, who had also written specialty numbers for her husband many times, for films like The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and The Inspector General (1949).

> Costumes for The Court Jester were created by the legendary Edith Head, who had to contend with an impatient Danny Kaye. Kaye hated costume fittings, which can take hours. Finally, he annoyed Head so much that she snapped at him that he should just stand still because women had to go through it all the time. Kaye was worried about having to wear heavy armor, which would make it hard for him to move. To create the illusion of chain mail and armor, Head used a lightweight aluminum. After seeing Kaye's rather skinny legs in the tights that he would wear throughout the film, the producers decided that he needed to look more robust, so padding was used for his calves.