This jazz-age adventure of marital infidelity, mysticism, suicide, and other intrigues in New York was one of a series of lavish sex comedies DeMille made with Gloria Swanson (see also Why Change Your Wife?, July 19), one of Hollywood's fashion addicts who expected to wear a different gown in every scene. Clare West's costume designs for these films indulged DeMille's interest in the exotic, but never so much as in The Affairs of Anatol, where production design was by the Art Nouveau stylist Paul Iribe. "(Iribe) arranged the entire picture like a series of Beardsley illustrations to Oscar Wilde.... Correcting DeMille's vulgar streak, (he) created an ambience so dazzling, so intoxicating, that many art critics discussed the picture in serious journals." (Charles Higham, DeMille)