Calendar Girls is about the women of the Rylstone Women's Institute in North
Yorkshire. This Women's Group produces a calendar each year based
around scenes of the Yorkshire dales. In 1999, one of the ladies husbands
became ill with leukemia. He would say that if the ladies planted Sunflowers,
he'd make sure he'd get better so he could see them. Unfortunately, he
didn't
pull through and in order to raise funds for Leukemia research the women
decided to make an alternative calendar of themselves in the nude hoping to
sell a few hundred copies around their villages. This calendar in fact
became
a worldwide sensation, out-selling even those of Britney Spears and Cindy
Crawford.