Green Dolphin Street

For other uses, see Green Dolphin Street (disambiguation).

Green Dolphin Street
Directed by	Victor Saville
Produced by	Carey Wilson
Written by	Samson Raphaelson Carey Wilson
Based on	Green Dolphin Street 1944 novel by Elizabeth Goudge
Starring	Lana Turner Van Heflin Donna Reed Richard Hart
Music by	Bronislaw Kaper
Cinematography	George J. Folsey
Edited by	George White
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	5 November 1947
Running time	142 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4,391,000
Box office	$7,173,000

Green Dolphin Street is a 1947 historic drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and based on the novel by Elizabeth Goudge.

Plot summary

In the 1840s, on an island in the English Channel, two sisters, Marguerite (Donna Reed) and Marianne Patourel (Lana Turner), daughters of the wealthy Octavius Patourel (Edmund Gwenn), fall in love with the same man, William Ozanne (Richard Hart).

Having settled in New Zealand, William writes a letter to the family proposing marriage to one of the sisters. Because he is drunk, he mistakenly writes the name "Marianne" instead of "Marguerite" It is actually Marguerite that he loves and wants to marry. Marianne, believing he wants to marry her, decides to set off for New Zealand to be with her intended.

Cast

• Lana Turner as Marianne Patourel
• Van Heflin as Timothy Haslam
• Donna Reed as Marguerite Patourel
• Richard Hart as William Ozanne
• Frank Morgan as Dr. Edmond Ozanne
• Edmund Gwenn as Octavius Patourel
• Dame May Whitty as Mother Superior
• Reginald Owen as Captain O'Hara
• Gladys Cooper as Sophie Patourel
• Moyna Macgill as Mrs. Metivier
• Linda Christian as Hine-Moa
• Bernie Gozier as Jacky-Poto
• Patrick Aherne as Kapua-Manga
• Al Kikume as A Maori
• Edith Leslie as Sister Angelique
• Ramsay Ames as Corinne
• Gigi Perreau as Veronica
• Douglas Walton as Sir Charles Maloney

Production background

The film stars Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, and Richard Hart, and features a screenplay by Samson Raphaelson based on the historical novel Green Dolphin Street (1944) by Elizabeth Goudge. The film was directed by Victor Saville and produced by Carey Wilson.

Hart and Heflin, who played romantic rivals in Green Dolphin Street, were similarly cast in B.F.'s Daughter (1948). Hart made only four feature films before his death at an early age, two of them co-starring Heflin.

Reception

The film was one of the most popular movies at the British box office in 1948 and MGM's most popular movie of 1947. It earned $4,304,000 in the US and Canada and $2,869,000 elsewhere, but because of its high cost only recorded a profit of $339,000.

Awards

In 1948, the film won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, particularly for its depiction of a devastating earthquake. It was also nominated in the categories Cinematography (Black-and-White), Film Editing, Sound Recording (Douglas Shearer) and Special Effects.

Theme song

The film's title song, "Green Dolphin Street" (often recorded as "On Green Dolphin Street"), went on to become a jazz standard. The song has been recorded by Bill Evans, Eric Dolphy, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Tony Bennett, Miles Davis, Ahmad Jamal, John Coltrane, Agnieszka Hekiert, *Dick and Kiz Harp, and Grant Green among others.

Radio adaptation

Green Dolphin Street was presented on Lux Radio Theatre September 19, 1949. The adaptation starred Turner, Heflin, and Peter Lawford.

External links

• Green Dolphin Street at IMDb
• Green Dolphin Street at AllMovie
• Green Dolphin Street at the TCM Movie Database
• Green Dolphin Street at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Lyrics of title song
• "On Green Dolphin Street" at Jazz Standards