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Tearjerker | Farewell
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Feature Film | 1946 | David
Top Ten Films | 1946
Best Actress | 1946
Best Actress in a Leading Role | 1947
Best Director | 1947 | David
Best Writing Screenplay | 1947 | Ronald
This movie was shot during the final days of World War II, going into production in January 1945. Filming was completed in May, with an interruption on May 8 to celebrate Germany's surrender.
Celia Johnson was not looking forward to the four-week location shoot at the railway station, but her opinion changed when they got there and the cast and crew developed a spirit of camaraderie. Between scenes, she usually played poker with the crew or worked a crossword puzzle. She also was impressed with the hospitality shown by the station master, who let them warm up in his office during the cold winter nights.
According to several Billy Wilder biographies, the scene in this movie where Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard) tries to use a friend's apartment in order to be alone with Laura inspired Wilder to write "The Apartment (1960)."
Carnforth Station was chosen partly because it was so far from the southeast of England that it would receive sufficient warning of an air-raid attack that there would be time to turn out the filming lights to comply with wartime blackout restrictions.
The screenplay was adapted and based on Noël Coward's 1935 short one-act (half-hour) stage play "Still Life". It was expanded from five short scenes in a train station (the refreshment tea room of Milford Junction Station) to include action in other settings (Laura's house, the apartment of the Dr. Harvey's friend, restaurants, parks, train compartments, shops, a car, a boating lake, and at the cinema).
"Laura Jesson: It's awfully easy to lie when you know that you're trusted implicitly. So very easy, and so very degrading."
"Laura Jesson: [Secret thoughts] This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long. There'll come a time in the future when I shan't mind about this anymore, when I can look back and say quite peacefully and cheerfully how silly I was. No, no, I don't want that time to come ever. I want to remember every minute, always, always to the end of my days."
