Mary Pickford deliberately cast four long time veterans of the silent screen, Huntley Gordon, Theodore von Eltz, Bessie Barriscale, and Ethel Clayton as her four grown children.
Marshall Neilan was the original director, but he was fired by producer Mary Pickford for showing up too drunk to work. He was replaced by Frank Borzage.
The story of the same title upon which this film is based first appeared in the December 1918 edition of Harper's Bazaar magazine.