The Broadway premiere of the play 'Mrs. Black Is Back' opened at the Bijou Theatre in New York on November 7, 1904, and ran for 79 performances. May Irwin played the titular role and reprized her role in this film. Charles Lane, who appeared in the production as Tom Larkey, plays a different role here. Frances Gordon (as Priscilla Black), Vera Rial (as Sarah Dale) and John G. Sparks (as Larry McManus) also appeared in the stage production.
Clara Blandick, here making one of her earliest film appearances, had previously worked with May Irwin in two Broadway shows one year earlier, 'Widow by Proxy' and 'Mrs. Peckham's Carouse'. A year later, they would appear together again on Broadway in 'No. 13 Washington Square' which ran from August to October, 1915, at the Park Theatre at Columbus Circle, New York.