On July 14, 1904 Sophia Heide filed for divorce on the grounds of cruelty, non-support, and desertion.

[8] Hart took an interest in Westover, and introduced her to Thora Holm, who was looking for an actress to make films in Sweden.

[9] When Westover was working in New York City, William S. Hart came to see her, and escorted her to dinner and shows.

Only six months into the marriage, Hart told his pregnant wife to leave his home, and she went to live with her mother in Santa Monica.

[9] William S. Hart, Jr. grew up to become a professor of land economics at the University of Southern California.

[10] In order to portray the heavyset servant, who’d been given the derogatory nickname of Lummox, Westover ate fatty food, avoided exercise, and gained forty pounds.

[11] She received praise for her acting, with one newspaper stating: "Winifred Westover’s characterization of the buxom servant girl, whose little world has been the drab atmosphere of cheap lodging houses, shabby humanity, and cruel employers, reaches heights rarely ever attained.