Written and directed by J. Gordon Edwards, it starred Betty Blythe as the Queen and Fritz Leiber Sr. as King Solomon.

However Bara chose not to renew her contract and, after making the ill-fated Kathleen Mavourneen (1919), she all but retired from filmmaking.

The hippodrome set for the chariot race was constructed on the north end of the Fox Hollywood studio lot.

[citation needed] Although the film received good reviews, its premiere run disappointed Fox, and its road show was cancelled.

[8][9][10] A 1937 New Jersey vault fire destroyed most of the Fox silent film negatives and prints, and it is unlikely a copy of The Queen of Sheba still exists.