Dawn found her role unsatisfying due to its similarity to her part in Up in Mabel's Room, an earlier farce produced by Woods, but stuck with the show.

Critic Dorothy Parker described the play in a November 1921 theater review column for Ainslee's Magazine: "There is little use in retelling the plot of Getting Gertie's Garter, even if one could keep track of it.

The quest for the garter includes several badly confused sets of married couples, a comedy butler, a French maid, and a generous assortment of lines at which large ladies in the audience laugh hysterically and nudge their companions viciously.

It is discouraging to report that, despite the heroic work of its cast and the labor of its authors, Getting Gertie's Garter remains far less depraved than those who have its success at heart could wish.

Jack Raymond directed the film, which starred Sydney Howard, Winifred Shotter and Elsie Randolph.