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Romantic Comedy | Fire
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Best Art DirectionInterior Decoration BlackandWhite | 1943
Best Picture | 1943
Best Writing Screenplay | 1943 | Irwin
Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1943
Best Writing Original Story | 1943
Best Film Editing | 1943
Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | 1943
Budget 1,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 1,100,000 USD
This was the first time since the silent era that Ronald Colman was billed below another male lead.
Lloyd Bridges' tiny role was one of 20 film appearances he made in 1942 alone.
When the professor is unconscious on the floor, Tilney (Rex Ingram) asks Sam if he is a doctor. Ironically, Rex Ingram was himself a trained physician in real life.
Ronald Colman's character, Professor Michael Lightcap, receives a fair amount of ribbing and criticism from the townspeople of Lochester for his facial hair. His beard even becomes a symbol of his own cold detachment for his secretary and love interest, Nora Shelley. Lightcap's decision to shave his beard serves as an important piece of character development in the film. Coincidentally, Colman was also well known for his own facial hair, and insisted on keeping his trademark mustache for most of his films. Much like this character in this film, Colman was forced to begrudgingly shave his beloved facial hair for some of his most famous roles, including that of Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1935).
Sound chief John P. Livadary was dissatisfied with the sound recorded for the rain scene, so he substituted it with the track used for the rain scene in Only Angels Have Wings (1939).
"Michael Lightcap: This is your law and your finest possession - it makes you free men in a free country. Why have you come here to destroy it? If you know what's good for you, take those weapons home and burn them! And then think... think of this country and of the law that makes it what it is. Think of a world crying for this very law! And maybe you'll understand why you ought to guard it. Why the law has got to be the personal concern of every citizen. To uphold it for your neighbor as well as yourself. Violence against it is one mistake. Another mistake is for any man to look upon the law as just a set of principles. And just so much language printed on fine, heavy paper. Something he recites and then leans back and takes it for granted that justice is automatically being done. Both kinds of men are equally wrong! The law must be engraved in our hearts and practiced every minute to the letter and spirit. It can't even exist unless we're willing to go down into the dust and blood and fight a battle every day of our lives to preserve it. For our neighbor as well as ourself!"
"Leopold Dilg: With these indoor habits of yours, you've got the complexion of a gravel pit. Michael Lightcap: You know, Joseph, you're no oil painting yourself."
