Based on the Broadway hit by Vincent Youmans, the film was shot during the summer of 1930. Legend has it that production was shut down before the film as completed, but a numerous reports indicated that the film was very near completion when, for obscure reasons, and at Crawford's behest, production came to a halt. Work began to rewrite the script and to remount the project in 1931 with Crawford, and in 1935 with Jeanette MacDonald, but plans never reached fruition.
Press releases attached Harry A. Pollard to this project, but he may not have actually filmed any scenes for it.
In the English village of Denley, the Women's Institute (a wartime program channeling village products to the troops) is electrified to hear that they'll be visited by Eleanor Roosevelt. As the women struggle to get ready while bursting with the great secret, we glimpse their home lives in subplots, notably the problematic love life of young Margaret Ellis and the travails of her proud but impoverished father. How will their lives change before the Great Day? Written by Rod Crawford
