This ambitious family epic was enormously profitable for Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, netting well over $1 million.
Screenwriter Rupert Hughes adapted this from his own story that he penned for the Saturday Evening Post about 1913.
This film survives at the Cinematheque Francais .
Famed Polish pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski visits the Goldwyn Studio in Culver City, CA set of 'The Old Nest' and is shown the scenario written by Rupert Hughes and is directed by Reginald Barker at right.