Ten years later, young Don Juan, a graduate of the University of Pisa, is famous as a lover and pursued by many women, including the powerful Lucrezia Borgia, who invites him to her ball.

Don Juan premiered August 6, 1926, at the Warner Theatre in New York City[6] preceded by a program of other shorts demonstrating Vitaphone.

[7] Lou Tellegen, an early film matinee idol, had starred in a Broadway production based on the Don Juan legend in 1921.

[10] On August 24, two weeks after the premiere, The New York Times reported that ASCAP was pursuing claims of copyright infringement on behalf of publisher Robbins-Engel Music over the score for Don Juan.

[11] One of the compositions Axt interpolated in the score for Don Juan was "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks," a tone poem by the German composer Richard Strauss.

[14] A print of Don Juan, including its Vitaphone soundtrack, still survives and is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.