According to an item in the 31 May 1919 Exhibitors Herald and Motography, screen rights to Stewart Edward White’s 1916 novel, The Leopard Woman (first published in Saturday Evening Post), were currently owned by Great Authors’ Pictures, Inc. Over a year later, the 1 Jul 1920 Wid’s Daily indicated that rights had transferred to J. Parker Read, Jr., Productions, who planned to film a screen adaptation over the course of twelve weeks, with Louise Glaum and House Peters in the lead roles.
       On 3 Jul 1920, Camera announced that production manager Lincoln Hart had initiated work on the film. Location shooting in Palm Springs, CA, began two weeks later, according to items in the 17 Jul 1920 Camera and 19 Jul 1920 Wid’s Daily. By 31 Jul 1920, filming was being done at Thomas H. Ince Studios in Culver City, CA, as noted in that day’s Motion Picture News. An estimated production budget of $200,000 was cited in the 21 Aug 1920 Exhibitors Herald, which also announced a 12 Sep 1920 release date.
       The 28 Aug 1920 Motion Picture News stated that The Leopard Woman was set to be the “first contribution” to Associated Producers, Inc.’s program. However, the post-production period was extended, and Associated Producers rearranged its distribution schedule so that this film was no longer its first release, as reported in the 25 Sep 1920 Motion Picture News. Theatrical release likely occurred sometime in Oct 1920. In Los Angeles, CA, the film opened the week of 6 Nov 1920 at Tally’s Broadway Theatre, according to that day’s Camera, which called the picture “tommyrot” in a negative review. When Stewart Edward White first viewed the final film at Ince Studios in Culver City, CA, it struck him as quite different from his novel, according to a Nov 1920 Photoplay article. He was quoted as saying, “My book was 436 pages long. I devoted two pages to the Leopard Woman’s past and four hundred thirty-four to her present. While they’ve given four and three-fourths reels to her past to one-half a reel to her present. But then, I don’t say I’m right. It’s certainly a wonderful picture.”
       An item in the 2 Oct 1920 Moving Picture World indicated that co-scenarist H. Tipton Steck wrote the continuity and titles for this picture. The 14 Aug 1920 Exhibitors Herald listed Bhogwan Singh as a cast member, and the 28 Aug 1920 Motion Picture News claimed that Hadji Tahar performed a whirling dervish act in the film. Various contemporary news items claimed that the cast included "several hundred Africans, Egyptians and others."
       According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant.