Norman Zierold, in Garbo, his autobiography of Greta Garbo, mentions the willingness of M.G.M. to increase its budget on the films of Greta Garbo now that she had previously starred in three earlier films. The studio had originally slated Dmitri Buchowetsky to direct and Richard Cortez to star in the film "Love". "On seeing the early rushes the studio heaads were dissatisfied. They decided to scrap the footage, replace Buchowetsky with Edmond Goulding and Cortez with John Gilbert....The cost of the shifting of forces was nearly a quarter of a million dollars."
The film was photographed by William Daniels.
John Gilbert during 1927 also appeared in the films "Twelve Miles Out" (eight reels) directed by Jack Conway and starring Eileen Percy and "Man, Woman and Sin" (seven reels), directed by Monta Bell and starring actress Jeanne Eagles. Greta Garbo in Love silent Film
The extratextural discourse that included fan magazines exploiting the Garbo-Gilbert affair during 1927 alluded to it while reviewing the performance of John Gilbert in "Man, Woman and Sin" (seven reels), which the periodical Photoplay saw as being of interest because of the actor and actress being paired together, but concluded, "Miss Garbo needn't worry over Miss Eagles", it having purported that the film and oart played by the actress was tailored to substitute for Greta Garbo ie. it being a John Gilbert vehicle in that stars as commodity fulfill the audience exoectations of genres as they develop. "Monta Bell knows his city room. After that the film disintegrates into cheap melodrama. "Man, Woman and Sin", by virtue of it being lost silent film is included in the volume Lost Films written by Gary Carey, Museum of Modern Art. A comeback film for which actress Jeanne Eagles was "extrememely well recieved", Gary Carey writes, "Few of her films have been preserved and thus has been lost the record of the most heralded actress of the decade." The film was photographed by Percy Hilburn.
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