The story was based on the true story of Gabrielle Darley, but producer Dorothy Davenport did not secure her permission to film the events in her life. When Darley, who had moved on to marry and become an upstanding member of her community, found out that a film of her life had been made without her consent, she sued Davenport and financially ruined her. Matters of invasion of privacy by the media were not clear in 1925, and it's unlikely that Ms. Darley would have been able to win the case nowadays, since most details of the trial were a matter of public record.
Directorial debut of Walter Lang. Producer Dorothy Davenport co-directed with Lang, uncredited, and at times overruled his decisions if she did not agree with them.
The film is notable for being one of the few independent productions produced and written by women.
The film was banned in the United Kingdom by the British Board of Film Censors in 1926. It was also banned in the city of Chicago, Illinois at the time.
This film is based on a real case of prostitution that took place in New Orleans in 1917.