According to the widow of Norton S. Parker, Helen Foster kept a bottle of bootleg whiskey just out of camera range to keep herself "half-smashed" during the strip poker scenes.
For his book Kevin Brownlow interviewed a woman who remembered seeing the film when it first opened in 1928. She was 13 but made herself look old enough to get in (the age minimum was 16). She later married director Norton S. Parker.
The film was given an outright ban by New York and Pennsylvania censors during its initial release in 1928, but one theatre, "The Towers" in Camden, NJ, did brisk business by actually having Philadelphians driven across the river to their theatre in hired buses.
(Philadelphia Inquirer, 18 August 1928)
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