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  Calendar Girls Production NotesThey dropped everything for a good cause.
Chris and Annie are the best of friends - very different, but very close. Living in a small village in the Yorkshire Dales, their peaceful lives are shattered when Annie's husband dies of leukemia.
An active member of the local Women's Institute, Chris enlists the support of her fellow members in a fund-raising initiative for the local hospital. Her seemingly traditional idea is to produce a calendar, with a different woman photographed for each month. Each one will be engaged in a classic WI task, such as jam making, flower pressing and knitting.
Sounds traditional enough, but her idea has a radical twist - the women will be in the nude. Before they know it, the women are hitting the headlines at home and abroad. Whisked off to Hollywood on a whirlwind publicity tour, they take their turn on the talk shows and in magazine photo shoots. Amidst the hype and glamour, the friendship between Chris and Annie is put to the test.
The story for Touchstone Pictures' new film “Calendar Girls” was inspired by the reallife story of the Rylstone and District Women's Institute, an organization that strives to “seek happiness in achievement.
In April 1999, when the group published their 2000 calendar, they knew they might raise a few eyebrows, but they didn't expect much drama. The calendar was published in the hope of raising a few pounds for the local hospital, which had cared for Angela Baker's husband John who had recently died of leukemia.
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