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The play was originally bought as a starring vehicle for Norma Shearer, who balked at playing a mother again so soon after The Women (1939) and instead set her cap on the role of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (1940), an assignment studio chief Louis B. Mayer ultimately bestowed upon Greer Garson.
The unnamed religion Susan found fashionable was based on a real Christian movement created by Lutheran Rev. Frank N. D. Buchman, which he named the Oxford Group and it later became known as Moral Re-armament. He denied it was a religion, explaining that it was a group of like-minded individuals wishing to surrender to God and was without any organization, nor membership.
The stage version tried out in Princeton, NJ, and opened on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on 10/7/1937, where it ran for 288 performances. Gertrude Lawrence had one of her greatest personal successes in the role of Susan.
Originally announced to star Greer Garson after Norma Shearer turned the part down.
Nancy Kelly created the role of Blossom on Broadway.
"Susan Trexel: If you're not going to be pretty, the least we can do is make you interesting."
"Mary Maloney: Gazing around the dark, gloomy entryway of the house. "Look at this hallway, frighten Dracula.""
