Inspired Yasujiro Ozu to become a film director.
Thomas H. Ince's contract player Billie Burke fainted in the audience to create publicity for the picture.
Motion Picture Magazine reported in 1917 that an unnamed female extra had died during production. Her husband, who possessed no photographs of his dead wife, allegedly attended every local screening of the film in hopes of seeing her face again.
William Cochrane, who was the press representative of the Democratic National Committee, is quoted as claiming this film helped Woodrow Wilson beat Republican Charles Evans Hughes in the 1916 presidential election. Producer Thomas H. Ince claimed that Wilson's slogan, "He kept us out of war", was the inspiration for the film.
Debut of actresses Claire Du Brey. and Alice Terry.