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Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Director Allusion: In the final scene King Vidor is directing a World War I film. This was three years after Vidor's triumphant smash hit World War I film, The Big Parade.
  • Executive Meddling: The script originally called for Marion Davies to take a Pie in the Face. However her companion William Randolph Hearst, who was also producing the film and was very sensitive to how Davies was portrayed onscreen, objected. Vidor settled for having Davies get sprayed with a bottle of seltzer water.
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes: Released on VHS in the 1990s but still not available on DVD.