In the Mary Pickford collection these test shots survived and show Lubitsch’s search for an actor for the role of Mephisto. He had tried in vain to convince Douglas Fairbanks to play the part, but Fairbanks “was not interested in playing a bad character”. Lubitsch himself had played the devil in early silent films like Has Trutz im Schlaraffenland und Dr. Satanssohn. Some actors of the screen tests show some similarity to Lubitsch.