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That Forsyte Woman

  • 1949
  • Passed
  • 1h 53m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
1.4K
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Errol Flynn, Robert Young, Greer Garson, and Walter Pidgeon in That Forsyte Woman (1949)
Love among the Forsytes is strange, full of tradition, melancholy and gold digging in this film treatise on Victorian-age rigidity and vestiges of a flawed society.
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Love among the Forsytes is strange, full of tradition, melancholy and gold digging in this film treatise on Victorian-age rigidity and vestiges of a flawed society.Love among the Forsytes is strange, full of tradition, melancholy and gold digging in this film treatise on Victorian-age rigidity and vestiges of a flawed society.Love among the Forsytes is strange, full of tradition, melancholy and gold digging in this film treatise on Victorian-age rigidity and vestiges of a flawed society.

  • Director
    • Compton Bennett
  • Writers
    • John Galsworthy
    • Jan Lustig
    • Ivan Tors
  • Stars
    • Errol Flynn
    • Greer Garson
    • Walter Pidgeon
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.6/10
    1.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Compton Bennett
    • Writers
      • John Galsworthy
      • Jan Lustig
      • Ivan Tors
    • Stars
      • Errol Flynn
      • Greer Garson
      • Walter Pidgeon
    • 44User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Greer Garson in That Forsyte Woman (1949)
    Harry Davenport in That Forsyte Woman (1949)
    Janet Leigh in That Forsyte Woman (1949)
    Errol Flynn and Greer Garson in That Forsyte Woman (1949)
    Janet Leigh and Robert Young in That Forsyte Woman (1949)
    Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon in That Forsyte Woman (1949)
    Janet Leigh and Robert Young in That Forsyte Woman (1949)
    Errol Flynn and Greer Garson in That Forsyte Woman (1949)
    Errol Flynn and Greer Garson in That Forsyte Woman (1949)
    Errol Flynn and Greer Garson in That Forsyte Woman (1949)
    Robert Young and Greer Garson in That Forsyte Woman (1949)
    Errol Flynn, Robert Young, and Greer Garson in That Forsyte Woman (1949)

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    Errol Flynn
    Errol Flynn
    • Soames Forsyte
    Greer Garson
    Greer Garson
    • Irene Forsyte
    Walter Pidgeon
    Walter Pidgeon
    • Young Jolyon Forsyte
    Robert Young
    Robert Young
    • Philip Bosinney
    Janet Leigh
    Janet Leigh
    • June Forsyte
    Harry Davenport
    Harry Davenport
    • Old Jolyon Forsyte
    Aubrey Mather
    Aubrey Mather
    • James Forsyte
    Gerald Oliver Smith
    • Wilson
    Lumsden Hare
    Lumsden Hare
    • Roger Forsyte
    Stanley Logan
    • Swithin Forsyte
    Halliwell Hobbes
    Halliwell Hobbes
    • Nicholas Forsyte
    Matt Moore
    Matt Moore
    • Timothy Forsyte
    Florence Auer
    Florence Auer
    • Ann Forsyte Heyman
    Phyllis Morris
    • Julia Forsyte Small
    Marjorie Eaton
    Marjorie Eaton
    • Hester Forsyte
    Evelyn Beresford
    Evelyn Beresford
    • Mrs. Taylor
    Jimmy Aubrey
    Jimmy Aubrey
    • Cabby
    • (uncredited)
    Frank Baker
    Frank Baker
    • Lord Dunstable
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Compton Bennett
    • Writers
      • John Galsworthy
      • Jan Lustig
      • Ivan Tors
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    • Trivia
      When Greer Garson flung her wardrobe open to change into a dress to accompany Soames to the art gallery, Errol Flynn jumped out of the wardrobe which caused her to scream and faint on set.
    • Goofs
      In an era of corset-wearing ladies there is a scene where Irene confronts Soames in his office about going on vacation. Garson is dressed in a Victorian nightgown and robe but in various scenes of her seated her bra straps are visible.
    • Quotes

      Soames Forsyte: [In a disparaging way as Young Jolyon is leaving] I understand you're teaching now at some sort of second-rate art school... or something.

      Young Jolyon Forsyte: [Replying as he is leaving] The art school is first rate. I'm second rate.

    • Connections
      Featured in Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949)
    • Soundtracks
      The Lancer's Quadrilles: La Dorset
      Composed by Spagnoletti

      [the first dance at June's ball]

    User reviews44

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    7/10
    A Prisoner Of His Own Legend
    According to the Citadel Film Series book, The Films Of Errol Flynn, MGM and Warner Brothers did a swapping of stars for the services of the other. Errol Flynn went to MGM for a picture in return for Warner Brothers getting the services of William Powell for Life With Father. I think Powell made out far better in the deal than Flynn did with an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his film.

    Not that Errol Flynn was bad in That Forsyte Woman, in fact his casting as the proper and stuffy Soames Forsyte was quite a revelation. But the movie-going public simply wouldn't buy it. Errol, not the dashing hero with sword in hand and cape over the other shoulder was not accepted. If That Forsyte Woman had been made a decade earlier and for Warner Brothers, Flynn would have been perfect to play Robert Young's role of Philip Bossiney.

    Flynn is married to Greer Garson and is guardian of niece Janet Leigh. Leigh is the daughter of black sheep brother in this proper Victorian family, Walter Pidgeon. Pidgeon years ago ran away with his niece's governess after the family did not permit the recently widowed Pidgeon to marry her. Back in those days proper English families did things like that.

    Anyway the rather staid marriage of Flynn and Garson gets a jolt when opportunistic Robert Young who Leigh has been keeping company with, falls for Garson and she, him. In modern times it would be a no fault divorce, but things aren't done that way in Victorian England.

    If there is a weakness in casting it's that of Robert Young. I'm surprised that MGM did not use someone like Peter Lawford whom they had under contract and was British besides. Greer was British, but the rest of the cast had two Americans in Young and Leigh, a Canadian in Pidgeon and Flynn was Australian. Young was older than Errol Flynn and just doesn't come over as the young opportunistic lover.

    Garson of course is the perfect English lady who usually wan't allowed dalliances by MGM, but she's fine here. Greer wrote the introduction to the Films Of Errol Flynn and she says that she found Flynn to be a perfect gentleman and anxious to prove himself a serious actor.

    He did in many ways in That Forsyte Saga. He was a prisoner of his own legend at this point.
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    • Sep 29, 2010

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    • Release date
      • November 3, 1949 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Forsyte Saga
    • Filming locations
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $3,710,000
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 53 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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