Adapted from a Broadway musical starring Marilyn Miller and presented by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.. The original production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York on Dec 21, 1920 and ran for 561 performances. Leon Errol was in the opening night cast, and Billie Dove was a replacement cast member during the show's long run.
Originally presented in 100% 2-color Technicolor, today the complete film survives only in black and white, with a singular musical number, "Wild Rose," in color.
Fragments of the color film for the "Wild Rose" song and dance number were found in the 1990s and have been intercut into the print that Turner Classic Movies shows on its cable channel.