Mary Pickford deliberately cast four long time veterans of the silent screen, Huntley Gordon, Theodore von Eltz, Bessie Barriscale, and Ethel Clayton as her four grown children.
Marshall Neilan was the original director, but he was fired by producer Mary Pickford for showing up too drunk to work. He was replaced by Frank Borzage.
Two-year old Margie Campbell was cast as a baby, but was fired and replaced before her scenes were shot, because she would not stop crying.