Movie |
Based On Novel Or Book | Amnesia
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Best Actress | 1944 | Greer
Best Writing Screenplay | 1943
Best Art DirectionInterior Decoration BlackandWhite | 1943
Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | 1943
Best Picture | 1943
Best Director | 1943 | Mervyn
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1943 | Susan
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1943 | Ronald
Best Actor | 1942 | Ronald
Budget 1,210,000 USD
Box Office Collection 8,147,000 USD
When shooting wrapped, the usually reticent Ronald Colman said, "This is one picture I hate to finish!"
Ronald Colman had first-hand experience of what was then called shell-shock: serving with the British army, he had fought at the Battle of Ypres in World War I, during which he was wounded and exposed to mustard gas.
The person Greer Garson spent the most time with on set was her favorite cinematographer, Joseph Ruttenberg. She appreciated his use of diffusion and fill-lighting to soften her features and his appreciation that she looked best shot on her right side. The studio's art department was also aware of this, and sets were frequently constructed to favor her facial asymmetry.
For the picnic scene in which Smithy proposes to Paula, Greer Garson wanted to ride her own bicycle, but for authenticity's sake, the art department found her a vintage 1918 vehicle. When production finished, Mervyn LeRoy gave her a new bike, which she gleefully rode through the streets of Beverly Hills to the delight of tourists.
With a 12-week exclusive run at Radio City Music Hall, the film set a then-house record as the venue's longest-running film. Demand for tickets was so great, they had to open the box office at 7:45. each morning. The theatre's manager told Mervyn LeRoy it could easily have played another 12 weeks, but MGM's parent company, Loew's, Inc., pulled it to play in wide release in their own theaters.
"Smithy: Isn't there something morbid in burying one's heart with the dead? Paula: That's a strange thing for you to say. Your capacity for loving, your joy in living, is buried in a little space of time you've forgotten. Smithy: In some vague way, I still have... Paula: ...hope? Smithy: Yes, I suppose that's it. Paula: Have you, Charles? Do you feel that there... really is someone? That someday you may find her? You may have... come so near her, may even have brushed her on the street... You might even have met her, Charles. Met her and not known her. It might be someone you know, Charles. It might... it might even be me."
"Smithy: [Rainier proposed to Ms. Hanson] You and I are in the same boat, Miss Hanson; we're both ghost-ridden. We are prisoners of our past. What if we were to pool our loneliness, and give each other what little we have to give support, friendship? I'm proposing marriage, Miss Hanson, or should I call it a merger? A Member of Parliament should have a wife, Margaret; so I'm told on all sides. He needs a clever hostess; you have exceptional gifts. Would it interest you to have a wider field for them? You need have no fear that I would make any emotional demands upon you. I have only sincere friendship to offer. I won't ask any more from you."
