Gloria Swanson admitted in an interview decades later that Wallace Reid's drug addiction scared her while they were making this film, and she avoided socializing with him because of it.
One of the scenes designed by Paul Iribe cost $30,000 in furnishings and included reproductions of a set of Louis XVI chairs. At the end of the scene, Wallace Reid was required to smash everything.
Arthur Schnitzler's original one-act play, "Anatol," was written in 1893. Harley Granville-Barker's English adaptation opened in New York City on 14 October 1912 with John Barrymore in the title role; it lasted 72 performances.
"Affairs of Anatol" is considered to be the final complete film starring Wallace Reid that is still extant. Sadly, the ten films he did complete after this one are considered to be "lost films" (as are most of the dozens of films he made prior to "Anatol").
PROLOGUE: "This is the story of a romantic Young Man who has a passion for saving Ladies from real, or imaginary, difficulties---always like Don Quixote, with the most honorable intent."
"But the Wives of such chivalrous Men are not so philanthropically interested in saving Other Women's Souls--- however noble and sincere their Husband's impulses."
"And first among these modern Knights, who start out with the best motives, in the firm belief that their Wives should trust them---is Anatol de Witt Spencer. WALTER REID"
"But the Wives of such chivalrous Men are not so philanthropically interested in saving Other Women's Souls--- however noble and sincere their Husband's impulses."
"And first among these modern Knights, who start out with the best motives, in the firm belief that their Wives should trust them---is Anatol de Witt Spencer. WALTER REID"