The movie was filmed at studios in New York and California and on locations near Savannah, Georgia.

A Corner in Cotton was directed by Fred J. Balshofer, with the assistance of Howard Truesdell and adapted for film by Charles A. Taylor from a story by Anita Loos.

Peggy grows weary of society life and decides to help improve the lot of the poor by becoming involved with the Settlement movement.

Peggy manages to gain employment there, but soon attracts the unwanted advances of the mill foreman.

In the end Peggy and John married after she foils her father's attempt to ruin Carter by cornering the market in cotton and then persuades the two men to settle their differences.