Deanna herself was announced to have rewritten the lyrics with Harold Adamson, adapting them to the Red Cross purpose.
Deanna Durbin was invited to star in short movies for the American Red Cross Annual Fund Drive twice, in 1938 ("A Friend Indeed") and in 1940 ("Angels of Mercy"). Many other Hollywood stars starting with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks after World War I, contributed and made short features during the 1930s and 1940s : Shirley Temple, Priscilla Lane, Bing Crosby, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Ingrid Bergman, Irene Dunne, Leslie Howard ... Deanna's popularity was so huge that she was invited twice. BSK.