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19th Century | Sibling Relationship
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Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1940
Best Performances of the Month June | 1939 | Merle
Best Film | 1939
Best Actor | 1939 | Laurence
Best Picture | 1940
Best Music Original Score | 1940
Best Art Direction | 1940
Best Writing Screenplay | 1940 | Ben
Best Director | 1940 | William
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1940 | Geraldine
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1940 | Laurence
Best Film | 1939 | William
Laurence Olivier found himself becoming increasingly annoyed with director William Wyler's exhausting style of filmmaking. After yet another take, he is said to have exclaimed, "For God's sake, I did it sitting down. I did it with a smile. I did it with a smirk. I did it scratching my ear. I did it with my back to the camera. How do you want me to do it?" Wyler's retort was, "I want it better." However, Olivier later said these multiple takes helped him learn to succeed as a movie actor.
Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier apparently detested each other. Legend has it that when director William Wyler yelled "Cut!" after a particularly romantic scene, Oberon shouted back to Wyler about Olivier, "Tell him to stop spitting at me!"
Producer Samuel Goldwyn felt that script was too dark for a romance movie, so he asked several people to do a rewrite on the script, including a young John Huston, who said that the script needed no rewrite; it was perfect as it was.
The movie only depicts sixteen of the novel's thirty-four chapters and is set in the nineteenth century instead of 1771-1801.
Vivien Leigh wanted to play the lead role, alongside her then lover and future husband Laurence Olivier, but studio executives decided the role should go to Merle Oberon. They offered Leigh the part of Isabella Linton, but she declined, and Geraldine Fitzgerald was cast.
"Heathcliff: Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest so long as I live on! I killed you. Haunt me, then! Haunt your murderer! I know that ghosts have wandered on the Earth. Be with me always. Take any form, drive me mad, only do not leave me in this dark alone where I cannot find you. I cannot live without my life! I cannot die without my soul."
"Heathcliff: I cannot live without my life! I cannot die without my soul!"
