Filming was done at Cuddebackville, NY, and at the Biograph Co. studio in New York City. According to the 1 Oct 1910 Nickelodeon, the length was 576 feet.
       The 22 Oct 1910 Moving Picture World described the film as follows: "The situations are humorous because they are unexpected, and each one develops spontaneously without much assistance from the others." However, the 15 Oct 1910 NIckelodeon wrote, "It would take a lawyer to straighten out the complications of this plot; no mere ordinary spectator should be expected to keep track of all the threads in the tangle. When the audience understood the situation, it laughed, but most of the time it was puzzled. The involutions of the plot are aggravated by a constant shifting of the scene, so that the mind is left panting, trying to keep pace with events. There was the suggestion of a good bit of character in the part of the excitable governess, but it was left fragmentary and undeveloped." The 15 Oct 1910 Variety said the comedy film "falls short. The characters are miscast, the two girls in the picture [the Pickford sisters, 18 and 15 years old] do not look any more than fifteen years of age, and both act in keeping with that age. One has a sweetheart who looks fully thirty or more....There seemed to be no excuse for the girl entering a boulevard cafe alone. The film has but four laughs in it at the most, and the finish falls flat."
       A Gold Necklace shared a split-reel with How Hubby Got a Raise (1909, see entry).        This film is extant, according to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database.