 Leatrice Joy (qv) claimed to have based her performance on  Madelynne Obenchain, whose trial she attended in Los Angeles.  Obenchain, who murdered her (unreceptive) paramour J. Belton Kennedy  in Los Angeles, later had her story incorporated into a film, "A Man  and a Million", produced by Charles R. Seeling (qv) and starring  her husband, Ralph Obenchain.