''Great Day'' is an unfinished 1930 American pre-Code

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, which was to star, in alphabetical order, Johnny Mack Brown,

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, John Miljan,

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, Marjorie Rambeau and

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Plot

No plot due to the unrelease of the film.

Cast

Overview

''Great Day'' began as a Vincent Youmans musical purchased by

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to be tailored to Joan Crawford's talents. The 1929 show had not been a success on Broadway, lasting only twenty-nine performances.''Great Day'' as produced on Broadway Oct. 17, 1929-Nov. 16, 1929 at the Cosmopolitan Theatre; IBDb
retrieved June 4, 2015. But several of its songs — with lyrics by

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and

Edward Eliscu Edward Eliscu (April 2, 1902 – June 18, 1998) was an American lyricist, playwright, producer and actor, and a successful writer of songs for films. Life Eliscu was born in Manhattan, New York City. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in ...

— 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 acquire the rights for the film version. Production started in the fall of 1930, but after around two weeks of shooting, the film was scrapped at considerable cost to the studio — $280,000. MGM and Crawford mutually agreed to major rewrites to save the film with the plan to resume shooting with the revised script in 1931; it never happened, and ''Great Day'' was never released. In 1934, MGM began another attempt to make the film, this time starring Jeanette MacDonald, but this was also abandoned.

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* 1930 films 1930s musical films American musical films American black-and-white films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films 1930s unfinished films 1930s English-language films 1930s American films {{musical-film-stub