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Anthony Adverse

  • 19361936
  • PassedPassed
  • 2h 21m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
1.8K
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POPULARITY
36,667
2,417
Olivia de Havilland and Fredric March in Anthony Adverse (1936)
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AdventureDramaRomance
In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
1.8K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
36,667
2,417
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    • Directors
      • Mervyn LeRoy
      • Michael Curtiz(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Hervey Allen(by)
      • Sheridan Gibney(screen play)
      • Milton Krims(dialogue)
    • Stars
      • Fredric March
      • Olivia de Havilland
      • Donald Woods
    Top credits
    • Directors
      • Mervyn LeRoy
      • Michael Curtiz(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Hervey Allen(by)
      • Sheridan Gibney(screen play)
      • Milton Krims(dialogue)
    • Stars
      • Fredric March
      • Olivia de Havilland
      • Donald Woods
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 38User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
    • Won 4 Oscars
      • 4 wins & 3 nominations total

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    Anthony Adverse
    Trailer 6:54
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    Olivia de Havilland and Fredric March in Anthony Adverse (1936)
    Olivia de Havilland and Fredric March in Anthony Adverse (1936)
    Olivia de Havilland and Fredric March in Anthony Adverse (1936)
    Fredric March in Anthony Adverse (1936)
    Olivia de Havilland in Anthony Adverse (1936)
    Anita Louise in Anthony Adverse (1936)
    Scotty Beckett and Fredric March in Anthony Adverse (1936)
    Scotty Beckett and Fredric March in Anthony Adverse (1936)
    Olivia de Havilland and Fredric March in Anthony Adverse (1936)
    Claude Rains and Gale Sondergaard in Anthony Adverse (1936)
    Olivia de Havilland and Fredric March in Anthony Adverse (1936)
    Claude Rains and Louis Hayward in Anthony Adverse (1936)

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    Fredric March
    Fredric March
    • Anthony Adverse
    Olivia de Havilland
    Olivia de Havilland
    • Angela Guisseppi
    Donald Woods
    Donald Woods
    • Vincent Nolte
    Anita Louise
    Anita Louise
    • Maria
    Edmund Gwenn
    Edmund Gwenn
    • John Bonnyfeather
    Claude Rains
    Claude Rains
    • Don Luis
    Louis Hayward
    Louis Hayward
    • Denis Moore
    Gale Sondergaard
    Gale Sondergaard
    • Faith
    Steffi Duna
    Steffi Duna
    • Neleta
    Billy Mauch
    Billy Mauch
    • Anthony Adverse at ten
    Akim Tamiroff
    Akim Tamiroff
    • Carlo Cibo
    Ralph Morgan
    Ralph Morgan
    • Debruille
    Henry O'Neill
    Henry O'Neill
    • Father Xavier
    Pedro de Cordoba
    Pedro de Cordoba
    • Brother Francois
    George E. Stone
    George E. Stone
    • Sancho
    Luis Alberni
    Luis Alberni
    • Tony Guisseppi
    Fritz Leiber
    Fritz Leiber
    • Ouvrard
    Joseph Crehan
    Joseph Crehan
    • Capt. Elisha Jorham
    • Directors
      • Mervyn LeRoy
      • Michael Curtiz(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Hervey Allen(by)
      • Sheridan Gibney(screen play)
      • Milton Krims(dialogue) (screenplay) (uncredited)
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      Film debut of Gale Sondergaard. NOTE: She won a "Best Supporting Actress" Academy Award (which was a new category).
    • Goofs
      During the duel between Don Luis and Denis Moore, the sword wielded by Moore was "unbated", i.e. his fencing foil was blunted with a protective guard on the tip.
    • Quotes

      [first title card]

      Title Card: Those who are destined to live during times of war and social upheaval are victims of cruel fate ~~ unable to find comfort in the past or peace in the present. They are the spiritual orphans of the world.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Making of a Great Motion Picture (1936)
    • Soundtracks
      I'll Wait For You My Love (Angela's Song)
      (uncredited)

      Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Lyrics by Howard Koch (uncredited)

      Sung by Carol Ellis (uncredited)

    User reviews38

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    9/10
    Child of Adversity
    Hervey Allen's great blockbuster novel Anthony Adverse, a major seller during the Depression Years provided both its leads, Fredric March and Olivia DeHavilland with some choice roles in their respective careers. The book turned out to be a one hit wonder for its author, but it certainly allowed him to live comfortably. Something like that other blockbuster novel Gone With the Wind did for its author which also gave Olivia DeHavilland an even bigger role in her career.

    Imagine if you will a Charles Dickens hero like Pip or David Copperfield born in very humble circumstances, but escaping to lead a life of high adventure away from the Dickensian settings of Victorian Great Britain and you've got Anthony Adverse. The supporting characters in the book and film could have also come from Dickens.

    Young Anthony is the product of an affair between a young officer, Louis Hayward, and the wife of a Spanish diplomat, Anita Louise. Husband Claude Rains kills Hayward in a duel and when his wife dies in childbirth, leaves the infant at a convent. The nuns give him the name of Anthony Adverse as the boy arrives on St. Anthony's Day and is a child of adversity if there ever was one.

    The grown up Anthony, played by Fredric March is apprenticed to his maternal grandfather Edmund Gwenn who does not know it as doesn't March at first. A sly and cunning housekeeper, Gale Sondergaard in her screen debut, puts the puzzle together, but she's got an agenda of her own which later meshes with the dissipated and dissolute Rains.

    March also falls for young Olivia DeHavilland who is an aspiring opera singer who also wants some of the finer things in life. Though they marry and have a son, both take different paths on a quest for material security and comfort.

    Anthony Adverse was a good follow up role for Olivia DeHavilland after Captain Blood. In both she's a crinolined heroine which she was destined to be cast as in her career at Warner Brothers. Still this part has a lot more to it than most of those she was doing at that time in her career.

    March was 39 when he made Anthony Adverse, still he's a good enough player to gradually age into the part. The story does take place over a long period of years, right into the Napoleonic era from 1773 when Anthony is born.

    Edmund Gwenn's character is pure Dickens, the Scot's merchant John Bonnyfeather (even the name) could easily have been Fezziwick from A Christmas Carol. Gale Sondergaard as the housekeeper could have been the bloodless Jane Murdstone combined with the vengeful Madame DeFarge.

    Sondergaard won the first Best Supporting Actress Oscar given out for her performance. It set a pattern of villainous female roles which she played until she got blacklist troubles in the late Forties.

    The novel was a lengthy one and Warner Brothers should have had something as long as Gone With the Wind in order to be really faithful to the book. Jack Warner didn't want to take a chance, but he did get a product that caught all the main points the author was trying to make.

    Even today with it's magnificent Erich Wolfgang Korngold score which also won an Oscar and its photography by Tony Gaudio, also a winner Anthony Adverse holds up very well for today's audience. Fans of March and DeHavilland should love it as will others.
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    • Release date
      • August 29, 1936 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Carev pustolov
    • Filming locations
      • Stage 15, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Warner Bros.
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    • Budget
      • $1,050,500 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 21 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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