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Green Dolphin Street is a 1947 American historical drama disaster film directed by Victor Saville and starring Lana Turner, Van Heflin, and Donna Reed. It was produced by Carey Wilson . Based on the 1944 novel Green Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge , it was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .
Green Dolphin Street may refer to: Green Dolphin Street, a 1944 historical novel by Elizabeth Goudge; Green Dolphin Street, a 1947 MGM film starring Lana Turner, based on the novel "On Green Dolphin Street" (song), a 1947 song written for the film; On Green Dolphin Street (Bill Evans album), 1959; On Green Dolphin Street (Archie Shepp album), 1977
Hart went to New York to study with Tamara Daykarhanova's School for the Stage. He appeared on Broadway in Pillar to Post (1943-1944), which ran 31 performances. [8] [6]Hart's big break came when, as resident juvenile in a summer theater at the Brattle Playhouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he played John (the witch boy), the lead role in a new play trying out there, Dark of the Moon.
In August 1946, it was announced she would replace Katharine Hepburn in the big-budget historical drama Green Dolphin Street (1947), a role for which she darkened her hair and lost 15 pounds. [121] [122] The film was produced by Carey Wilson, who insisted on casting Turner based on her performance in The Postman Always Rings Twice.
On Green Dolphin Street narrates the troubles, fears, dilemmas, problems and happiness of its main characters. There is an implicit feeling of nostalgia in the novel, a nostalgia for a time when everything seemed possible and life was full of hope and expectations.
"On Green Dolphin Street" (originally titled "Green Dolphin Street") is a 1947 popular song composed by Bronisław Kaper with lyrics by Ned Washington.The song was composed for the film Green Dolphin Street, which was based on a 1944 novel of the same name by Elizabeth Goudge, and became a jazz standard in the 1950s.
Sydney Hughes Greenstreet was born on December 27, 1879, in Eastry, Kent, [1] the son of Ann (née Baker) and John Jarvis Greenstreet, a tanner.He had seven siblings. He left home at the age of 18 to make his fortune as a Ceylon tea planter, but drought forced him out of business.
Green Dolphin Street is a novel by Elizabeth Goudge, first published by Hodder & Stoughton under the title Green Dolphin Country in 1944. The novel was adapted to a 1947 film . [ 1 ] The novel won a $125,000 prize offered by Louis B. Mayer for a novel suitable for filming.