to record the original stage production as a guide for the film adaptation. Frank Borzage was originally going to direct, but he departed in June 1932 to work on another project. Fox production head Winfield Sheehan decided to use a British director due to the film's setting, and Frank Lloyd was brought on board. Production took place from early October to November 29, 1932. The film was one of the first to use the words "damn" and "hell", as in "Hell of a lot". These had been used in the play. There was concern at the Hays Office that this could set a precedent. Fox president Sidney Kent was quoted saying the mild profanity "could not offend any person; and, after all, that was the real purpose of the Code. And as far as the use creating a precedent which might be followed by other producers is concerned, the best answer would be that anyone who could make a picture as good as Cavalcade might be justified in following the precedent." The film premiered in New York City on January 5, 1933, but did not go into general theatrical release until April 15. Soundtrack In addition to several original compositions by Coward, more than fifty popular songs, national anthems, hymns, ballads, and topical tunes relevant to the years portrayed were used in the film. Songs appearing in the film include: "Girls of the C.I.V.", "Mirabelle", "Lover of My Dreams", and "Twentieth Century Blues", all by Noël Coward "God Save the Queen" "Auld Lang Syne" by Robert Burns "Goodbye, Dolly Gray" by Will D. Cobb and Paul Barnes "Soldiers of the Queen" by Leslie Stuart "Land of Hope and Glory" by Edward Elgar "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" by Arthur J. Lamb and Harry von Tilzer "Emperor Waltz" by Johann Strauss II "I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside" by John A. Glover-Kind "Take Me Back to Yorkshire" by Harry Castling and Fred Godfrey "The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss II "Nearer, My God, to Thee" by Lowell Mason "I'll Make a Man of You" by Arthur Wimperis and Herman Finck "Your King and Country Want You" by Paul Rubens "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" by Jack Judge and Harry Williams "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile" by Felix Powell and George Asaf "Keep The Home Fires Burning" by Ivor Novello and