Waterloo Bridge
"Gone With the Wind's" Tempestuous "Scarlett O'Hara"! Romantic Robert Taylor! Exciting Together!
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Timing:
1:49 (109 min)
7.5/10
142
142
8.038/10
15380
15380
7.7/10
12000
12000
Country
Production
Genre
Drama, Romance, War
Budget
$1 200 000
Revenue
$31 111
Director
Actors
Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field, Maria Ouspenskaya, C. Aubrey Smith, Janet Shaw, Janet Waldo, Steffi Duna, Virginia Carroll
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
George Boemler
All team (15)
All team (15)
Short description
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.
What's left behind the scenes
- Before bringing the story of Myra and Roy Cronin to the big screen, it had been staged on Broadway since 1930.
- The film was released exactly one week after the end of the "Phoney War" and the Wehrmacht began its offensive against France.
- In the episode where the main characters dance a waltz, a dialogue was originally planned, but the screenwriters couldn't agree on the words. Ultimately, Merwin LeRoy decided that the images should speak for themselves – Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh would dance in silence, expressing their feelings only through glances, gestures, and facial expressions.
- Kitty, played by Virginia Field (1917-1992), and Roy, played by Robert Taylor (1911-1969), were unable to get married after 3 p.m. In Great Britain, there was a law passed as early as 1837 to prevent clandestine marriages, which were becoming a problem at that time, and this law established time restrictions on the marriage ceremony. According to this law, it could be held from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. In 1886, this time interval was extended to 3 p.m., and in 1934 – to 6 p.m. All time restrictions were lifted only in 2012.
- Maria Uspenskaya (1876-1949), who played the cruel Madame Olga, once studied with Konstantin Stanislavski (1863-1938) himself. After moving to America, she taught acting to Lee Strasberg (1901-1982), who later headed the prestigious Actors Studio in New York.
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