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Vivien Leigh and Lucile Watson. Waterloo Bridge is a 1940 American drama film and the remake of the 1931 film also called Waterloo Bridge, adapted from the 1930 play Waterloo Bridge. In an extended flashback narration, it recounts the story of a dancer and an army captain who meet by chance on Waterloo Bridge in London.
He refused to allow her to join Olivier in Pride and Prejudice (1940), and Greer Garson played the role Leigh had wanted for herself. [56] Waterloo Bridge (1940) was to have starred Olivier and Leigh; however, Selznick replaced Olivier with Robert Taylor, then at the peak of his success as one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most popular male stars. [57]
Waterloo Bridge: 1940: Myra Lester Mervyn LeRoy: MGM [3] 21 Days: Wanda Wallen Basil Dean aka 21 Days Together, Three Weeks Together and The First and the Last, originally filmed in 1937; release delayed until after Gone with the Wind London Film Productions [17] That Hamilton Woman: 1941: Emma, Lady Hamilton: Alexander Korda Alexander Korda ...
The second of these film versions starred Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor. "After the Lunch", a poem by Wendy Cope about two lovers parting on Waterloo Bridge, now forms the lyric of the song "Waterloo Bridge" by Jools Holland and Louise Marshall. [20] [21] The bridge features in the film A Window in London (1940).
The public will soon get a deeper look into one of Hollywood's most infamous love affairs. In 1936, sparks flew between Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh while playing lovers in "Fire Over England."
A Yank at Oxford was Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor's first film appearance together; they would later appear as the romantic lead couple in the remake of Waterloo Bridge (1940). Before this film, Taylor was seen as the "romantic love interest" and thus as a 1930s equivalent to Rudolph Valentino , with men therefore starting to doubt Taylor's ...
Purchased from the Vivien Leigh estate, the archive complements a collection of the star's belongings that were auctioned by Sotheby's on Sept. 26, largely comprising photos, furniture and ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...