According to John Gilbert biographer Even Golden, leading lady Jeanne Eagels held up the production due to illness, chronic lateness, and possible incapacitation due to her ongoing drugs and alcohol dependencies. Monta Bell found working with her so frustrating that he threatened to leave the film.
This marked the second time that leading man John Gilbert and director Monta Bell worked together, the first being The Snob (1924).
At the beginning of the picture, John Gilbert as a boy and his mother live in a black neighborhood.