 Actress Laura La Plante, a former-teenage actress who had previously starred in Leni's "The Cat and the Canary", was given top-billing in her role as Doris Terry, though her part in the film is considerably less involved than in the former.Film historian John Soister characterizes La Plante's role as that of an ingénue, consisting primarily of reactions to "assorted assaults, visions, and set-ups.