WATERLOO BRIDGE (1940)

A moving love story about a ballerina who turns to prostitution when she believes her lover was killed at war.

Running Time: 103 minutes (black and white)
Director: Mervyn Le Roy

Producer: Sidney Franklin
Screenplay: SN Behrman, Hans Rameau, and George Froeschel

Based on the play by: Robert E. Sherwood
Photography: Joseph Ruttenberg

Costumes: Adrian, Gile Steele
Music: Herbert Stothart

Fees: Vivien's fee was $100,000
Opened: New York May 17, 1940; London, November 17, 1940.

Starring: Vivien Leigh (Myra Lester), Robert Taylor (Capt. Roy Cronin), Lucile Watson (Lady Margaret Cronin), Virginia Field (Kitty), C. Aubrey Smith (Duke), and Maria Ouspenskaya (Madame Olga)

Academy Award Nominations: Best (black and white) Cinematography, Best Original Score

January 17, 1940, Vivien Leigh wrote Leigh Holman:
I have to have ballet lessons for this film [Waterloo Bridge] and have asked to be between two strong girls who can prop me up! Robert Taylor is the man in the picture and as it was written for Larry, it's a typical piece of miscasting. I am afraid it will be a dreary job but I won't think about it, and just concentrate on Romeo and Juliet. ...
Vivien

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