The film is based on the 1908 play of the same name by Rida Johnson Young, and it stars Dolores Costello.

The film is a semi-historical narrative and depicts the real-life courtship, marriage, and forced breakup of Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, and his wife from the American South, Elizabeth Patterson.

Napoleon did not approve of the union (despite the fact that her family was one of the wealthiest in America), and the marriage was annulled.

The film is based on the 1908 Broadway play written by Rida Johnson Young and starring Mary Mannering.

Future film players Charles Clary, Harrison Ford, and Maude Turner Gordon had roles in the production.