It stars Fred Stone (making his film debut), Jean Parker, and Esther Dale.

Ma and Pa Boyer work a small farm in Iowa, where they live with their daughter, Adie.

Ma thinks that Adie is pretty enough to be in the movies, and convinces Pa to sell the farm and move the family to Hollywood.

When Pa returns home, he arrives in the midst of a lavish party Ma is throwing, whose guest list includes Ranovitch and many of his friends.

(cast list as per AFI database)[2] In August 1935 RKO bought the rights to the novel, The Farmer in the Dell, by Phil Stong.

[3] The following month, Fred Stone was cast in the leading role of Pa Boyer, while it was announced that Cliff Reid would assume the producing duties.

It would be Sisk's second film as the supervising producer, after Chatterbox (originally titled Long Ago Ladies).

[6] In late October, RKO announced that the film had begun pre-production,[7] and the studio selected Ben Holmes to direct the picture.

[10] Moroni Olsen was added to the cast in mid-December,[11] shortly after which RKO announced that Jean Parker and Frank Albertson would playing opposite one another in the film.

[13] In early January 1936 Spencer Charters and Margaret Armstrong joined the cast, at the same time it became known that Esther Dale was also part of the production.