Three stars shared the top of the bill in the field of burlesque comedy in 1923, Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), Harold Lloyd (1893-1971) and Buster Keaton (1895-1966), but only the latter still filmed short films.

The scale of available resources was also different and turning to very simple models or shots taken from documentaries (for the whale hunt or for those of warships) shows to what extent the takings for this type of format were limited.  And yet, it was in these little savings that Buster was the freest and the most inventive.
 
For a long time Keaton was undecided before embarking on the feature length film and Joe Schenck (1878-1961), his producer, convinced him to take the plunge during the filming of The Love Nest. Furthermore, his first feature length film The Three Ages, filmed the same year, tells three parallel twenty minute stories.  In the event of failure, the film could have been cut and offered in three short films.  The Love Nest is moreover the only film written and produced by Keaton alone.

Up until today The Love Nest could only be viewed in a very old restored version that was contrasted and full of scratches, giving it the reputation of being a minor film.  Luckily there are only a few shots of this old copy in the new one as the bulk of the film was restored and recomposed by Lobster Films in 2001 from two nitrate elements: a truncated copy (dyed) from the CNC-Archives Françaises du Film and a black and white nitrate fragment from the EYE Film Instituut Nederland.

The text of the original French titles has been kept because the original English titles of the film no longer exist.  But legend has it that the list of names of the sailors on board were those of Hollywood stars whose names were spelt in a totally inventive way.