According to a contemporary article in the entertainment press, the ornate ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria hotel was recreated on the newest sound stage at the Warner Bros. studio for this picture.
George Eastman Museum's 2020 reconstruction failed to restore the original tints and tones of the original prints.
The $500 for the bracelet equates to about $9,230 in 2024.
According to Warner Bros records the film earned $344,000 domestically and $94,000 foreign, making it Warner Brothers' most financially successful film of the 1924-25 season.
Ernst Lubitsch was one of Germany's most renowned and successful directors when Mary Pickford brought him to America to direct her transition from woman-child waif to adult romantic actress in the lavish historical epic Rosita (1923). While audiences were resistant to Pickford's reinvention, Hollywood embraced Lubitsch, and Warner Bros. quickly signed him with irresistible terms: Lubitsch had story approval, complete production autonomy and final cut. "Warner Bros. was a new studio and [Harry M. Warner] wanted to give it some class," recalled Jack Warner. "Lubitsch was the first real class that my father's company had."