The 5 June 1915 Motion Picture News recounted director Frank Powell's company's two days in St. Augustine, FL, where he shot Theda Bara wearing filmy costumes on the beach. Other scenes were filmed at the private Villa Flora estate of Dr. Garnett, and at the Hotel Ponce De Leon and the Hotel Alcazar. Also, the proprietors of the Hotel Marion, where the company stayed, put their 85-foot yacht, Hilda, at their disposal. A member of the company was three-year-old Jane Lee, who played "Little Beata." A week later, the 12 June 1915 Motion Picture News reported that the company had returned to Fox's studios in Jersey City, NJ, and were busy at work.
       According to the copyright entry, this film was based on Joseph H. Trant's translation of Italian playwright Gabriele D'Annunzio's play La Gioconda, which opened in New York on 4 November 1902. According to news items, despite Eleanor Duse's performance as La Gioconda in the current stage production, D'Annunzio demanded that Theda Bara portray the lead role as a prerequisite to him signing the contract with Fox for film rights. A trade showing of the film was given in New York on 16 June 1915.
       Briefly, a working title for this film was The Vampire. Another of Theda Bara's 1915 films, A Fool There Was (see entry), was based upon a Rudyard Kipling poem called "The Vampire." Although Bara was popularly known as "The Vampire," or "Vamp," she did not appear in the Metro film The Vampire (see entry) which was released two months later, starring Olga Petrova.
       The Ohio Board of Censorship in Cleveland objected to the film and made substantial cuts that shortened The Devil's Daughter by either 1,300 of 1,800 feet—all of it containing images of Miss Bara, a native of Cincinnati, OH. Newspapermen who saw the film claimed that if Fox had kept the original La Gioconda title, the censors probably would not bothered with the film.
       The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included this film on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of January 2021.