Great Day (unfinished film)

Great Day is an unfinished 1930 American pre-Code musical film, which was to star, in alphabetical order, Johnny Mack Brown, Joan Crawford, John Miljan, Anita Page, Marjorie Rambeau and John Charles Thomas.

For the 1921 British short film, see The Great Day.
Great Day
Directed byHarry Beaumont
Harry Pollard
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
Unreleased
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Overview

Great Day began as a Vincent Youmans musical purchased by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to be tailored to Joan Crawford's talents. The 1929 show had not been a success on Broadway, lasting only twenty-nine performances.[1] But its songs — with lyrics by Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu — were memorable, including the title tune, another called "Without a Song" and "More Than You Know". It was the popularity of the music that encouraged MGM to buy the rights for the film version.

Production started in the fall of 1930, but after around eight weeks of shooting, the film was scrapped at considerable cost to the studio — $280,000[2]

The studio and Crawford mutually decided to go into major rewrites to save the film with the plan to go back to shooting with the newly revised script by the following year, in 1931. It never happened, and Great Day was never released. Another effort was made to make the film in 1934, this time starring Jeanette MacDonald, but this also fell through.

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gollark: Or at least would be if this stupid wyvern bridge would work. I need to use milo.
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gollark: You should probably keep the actual reason listed.
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References
  1. Great Day as produced on Broadway Oct. 17, 1929-Nov. 16, 1929 at the Cosmopolitan Theatre; IBDb; retrieved June 4, 2015.
  2. St. Romain, Theresa (2008). Margarita Fischer: A Biography Of the Silent Film Star. McFarland. p. 145. ISBN 0-7864-3552-6.
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