This Goldwyn Pictures Corporation film was the first to feature as its logo Leo the Lion's roar, which would later pass to MGM when Goldwyn merged with two other companies. The logo was designed by Howard Dietz.
The play by Margaret Mayo premiered on Broadway at the Liberty Theatre on December 23, 1907, and ran for 160 performances. Mabel Taliaferro played the titular role and Herbert Ayling, Joseph Brennan, James Cherry, Mattie Ferguson, Jack B. Hollis, Elsie St. Leon and Malcolm Williams were also in the cast.
Film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey at Universal Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century.