Poor Mrs. Jones (1926) is a 46-minute, black-and-white comedy, drama and family silent film produced by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1925 and released in 1926.
[2] Shot on location in Washington, DC and at a farm in Maryland, the film features Gone with the Wind actress Leona Roberts as Jane Jones, a 1920s rural housewife tired of a grueling and unglamorous day-to-day life.
New York Times film critic Dave Kehr notes: "[F]rom a purely artistic point of view, the discovery of this round is "Poor Mrs.
Her sister Hattie's husband has a job in the city that pays $2000 a year, five times what the Jones' earns on the farm.
As a compromise, John suggests that Lane spend a few weeks in town with her sister Hattie to take a break from grueling farm work.