The 11 August 1917 Motion Picture News reported that director Joseph De Grasse "has commenced work on" The Maverick, the working title of Anything Once. D. C. Appling and Eugene Moore were mentioned as cast members, but apparently were not in the final credits. A couple of sources listed Appling as "Horned-Toad Smith," the role taken by Raymond Wells. Copyright records list Eugene Owen for the role of "Coyote Crosby," probably the uncle who willed the ranch, but his role may have been edited out of the final film as no reviews mention him in the cast lists.
       A Bluebird Photoplay advertisement in the 25 August 1917 Moving Picture Weekly announced that one of its upcoming films was The Maverick, starring Franklyn Farnum with Brownie Vernon , who had already costarred with him in A Stranger from Somewhere (1916), A Stormy Knight, and A Car of Chance (both 1917, see entries), but an item elsewhere in the same issue mentioned that De Grasse, Farnum's new "screen manager," was breaking up the team. That same week, Moving Picture World mentioned that Bluebird was introducing Farnum as "a lone star" in The Maverick, and that Brownie Vernon had been paired with actor Herbert Rawlinson. Weeks earlier, an item in the 4 August 1917 Motion Picture News had noted that Vivian Rich was now appearing opposite Farnum in the picture, but ultimately she was not part of the production.
       Moving Picture Weekly recounted a story that De Grasse and several actors, including Farnum, Claire Du Brey, and Lon Chaney, were being driven from one location to another "in one of the outlying districts of Los Angeles" when they were stopped by an hysterical woman whose little girl had been stolen from her only moments earlier. The chauffeur turned around and, soon, the men had the abductor in custody, and the girl was reunited with her mother.
       The 25 August 1917 Motion Picture News announced that Joseph De Grasse had completed filming The Maverick. That same week's Exhibitors Herald mentioned that his assistant on the film was his nephew Mancelia De Grasse, who soon after completing the film was called up for military service, according to the 10 November 1917 Moving Picture World. Another De Grasse in the production was veteran actor Sam De Grasse, Joseph's brother; despite their years in the film business, the two had never worked together before this picture, the 22 September 1917 Moving Picture Weekly noted.
       In preparation for the film's upcoming national 7 October release, Bluebird decided that the title The Maverick "would not be illuminating outside of the cattle country. It was changed to A Fool for Luck, and then the discovery was made that a similar title had been previously copyrighted," according to the 29 September 1917 Moving Picture World. At that point the company settled on Anything Once.
       The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included this film on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of February 2021.