The Trespasser was produced as both a silent and sound version for a total negative cost of $725,000.Beauchamp, Cari. Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years. Random House Digital. p 265. Accessed May 22. 2012 Gloria Swanson, in her sound film debut, received an Academy Award nomination. It was written and directed by Edmund Goulding and was first filmed as a silent film. A sound version was quickly made and was a big hit for its star, Gloria Swanson. Goulding remade the film as That Certain Woman (1937) with Bette Davis and Henry Fonda.
