Although the onscreen credits list the source of the movie as a play by Anne Crawford Flexner and Alice Hegan Rice, the play was actually written by Flexner from 2 stories, "Mrs. Wiggs" and "Lovey Mary," by Rice. The play opened at the Savoy Theater in New York on 3 September, 1904 and had 150 performances before closing in January 1905. The opening night cast included Thurston Hall as Bob and Helen Lowell as Miss Hazey.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
The story originally took place in Louisville, Kentucky.