Tyrone Power Sr. was originally supposed to play the Patriarch, but his untimely death prevented this. Hr was replaced by Hobart Bosworth, This would have marked the film debut of his son, Tyrone Power, Jr., but his father's death precluded that.
The Patriarch was a deaf mute who communicated by writing notes in the original novel.
The original Broadway production of "The Miracle Man" By George M. Cohan opened at the Astor Theater on September 21, 1914 and ran for 97 performances.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecast took place in Seattle Monday 22 June 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7).