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23 October 1944 (Sweden)
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He tried to divide his heart and broke theirs.
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Fourteen-year-old Tessa is hopelessly in love with handsome composer Lewis Dodd, a family friend. Lewis adores Tessa...
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Nominated for Oscar.
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Deeply Haunting film with Joan Fontaine
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Charles Boyer | ... | Lewis Dodd |
 | Joan Fontaine | ... | Tessa Sanger |
 | Brenda Marshall | ... | Toni Sanger |
 | Alexis Smith | ... | Florence Creighton |
 | Charles Coburn | ... | Charles Churchill |
| Dame May Whitty | ... | Lady Longborough |
 | Peter Lorre | ... | Fritz Bercovi |
| Jean Muir | ... | Kate Sanger |
| Joyce Reynolds | ... | Paula Sanger |
| Eduardo Ciannelli | ... | Roberto |
| Montagu Love | ... | Albert Sanger |
| Janine Crispin | ... | Marie |
| Doris Lloyd | ... | Miss Hamilton |
| Joan Blair | ... | Lina Kamaroff |
| Crauford Kent | ... | Thorpe |
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112 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Alfred Hitchcock was considered for directing this film. Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville was one of the writers of The Constant Nymph (1928) 1928 version.
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Featured in Between Two Worlds: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (2001) (TV)
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Tomorrow
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Joan Fontaine has became one of my very favorite actresses, just like her sister Olivia de Havilland, after seeing her in such Classics as "Rebecca", "Suspicion", "Jane Eyre" and that masterpiece, "Letter from an Unknown Woman". That mesmerizing constantly-frightened-insecure-frail look of hers has totally bewitched me; her classic features surrounded by an ethereal aura; her distinction and class, even in waif-like roles like the one she plays here and in "Letter…".
This film, just as "Letter from an Unknown Woman" is about Love, sometimes unrequited but always "intense". Young Tessa Sanger (Joan Fontaine) is deeply in love with much elder composer Lewis Dodd (Charles Boyer), who hasn't been able to succeed as musician. Tessa's father (another musician) played by Montagu Love, says that Lewis will have to love and suffer because of it, to attain an achievement as a composer.
The wondrous music by masterful German composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold is a marvel, pure poetry, which sets the perfect mood for this melancholic Love Story; it was really a privilege for Warner Brothers Pictures to have had the fortune of counting him as one of the members of its staff; Korngold's music is an awesome contribution to the Motion Pictures.
As I said before Joan Fontaine's perfect as the young Tessa. She was something like 26 years old when this movie was filmed and she portrays convincingly and believably the love-stricken teenager. Boyer is good as the intense composer and plays sensitively his scenes with Fontaine. Kudos too for Alexis Smith, who plays Florence, Tessa's elder cousin with great skill and sentiment.
Others in the magnificent cast are Charles Coburn as Tessa's lovable uncle, Brenda Marshall as Tessa's sister, Dame May Witty as a Dowager British Aristocrat, Peter Lorre as a friend of the Sanger family, Eduardo Ciannelli as Roberto, a faithful servant of the Sanger family, Jean Muir, etc.
Again, it's a shame that this wonderful, utterly moving film is out of circulation due to legal issues, if they didn't exist it should belong to TCM's Library (just like "Letty Lynton").