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LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.
- Vincitore di 1 Oscar
- 3 vittorie e 2 candidature totali
Katharine Alexander
- Miss Trask
- (as Katherine Alexander)
Tod Andrews
- Dr. Dan Regan
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Brooks Benedict
- Party Guest
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Morgan Brown
- Drugstore Soda Jerk
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
James Carlisle
- Concert Audience Member
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
David Clyde
- William
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Yola d'Avril
- Celestine
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Trama
Lo sapevi?
- QuizThe biggest box office hit of Bette Davis's career.
- BlooperWhen Charlotte confronts Jerry in front of the fireplace about "The most conventional, pretentious, pious speech...", a crew member is visible in the mirror of the fireplace and quickly backs out of view.
- Citazioni
[last lines]
Charlotte Vale: Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Quell'estate del '42 (1971)
- Colonne sonoreNight and Day
(1932) (uncredited)
Written by Cole Porter
Played offscreen on piano at the pre-concert party
Recensione in evidenza
excellent film with excellent ensemble
In the 1942 screen adaptation of the 1941 bestseller by Olive Higgins-Prouty, Bette Davis and Paul Henreid provide excellent, subtle performances as Charlotte Vale (self-described Spinster Aunt) and J.D. (Jerry) Durrance, the married man she meets, befriends, and with whom she falls in love on a cruise following a transformative stay at the Vermont Sanatorium operated by Dr. Jaquith (Claude Rains). Reviewers often speak of the themes of self-sacrifice and relate it to the war, which would have been an attractive reason to make the film, but the reality was that the novel was a popular best-seller, Higgins-Prouty's earlier novel, Stella Dallas, was also a popular film (and later a radio series), and the studio stood to do well financially if the movie turned out well. Hal Wallis' deft hand as producer is seen here, especially in his choice of Orry Kelly as costume designer for Bette Davis. He and the studio worked within the limits of censors' requirements, which indicated that there could be no intimation that the two main characters had sex (which was implicit in the novel but never explicitly stated, where the behavior between the two in the love scenes were generally glossed over most of the time), and that they could not share the same blanket in the scene where they are in a hut on a Brazilian mountain, stranded. They also had to change locales for the story, because the novel had the sea voyage set in and around Italy, Gibralter, etc. In spite of any restrictions placed on the filmmakers and actors, the film followed the novel very closely, especially with respect to dialogue. The big point of contention has always been: who invented the two-cigarette lighting gesture that Paul Henreid became famous for later? According to some, George Brent and Bette Davis did something similar earlier in another film, and according to Paul Henreid and Bette Davis, there was a cigarette exchange ritual in the script which was sort of awkward, so they improvised based on Paul Henreid's experience with his wife on car trips. The latter seems likely, as there was a cigarette-exchange ritual in the novel (Jerry would give Charlotte a cigarette, lighting hers and then his own on one match, and then they would exchange cigarettes with each other so that Charlotte smoked the one that had been in Jerry's mouth and vice versa), which would have been slightly awkward in practice.
All in all, this is a truly excellent film with great production values, true to the novel on which it was based, and a wonderful ensemble cast.
All in all, this is a truly excellent film with great production values, true to the novel on which it was based, and a wonderful ensemble cast.
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- shule2000
- 28 gen 2005
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Dettagli
Botteghino
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 10.390 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 57 minuti
- Colore
- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1
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