Information about Anthony Adverse

Anthony Adverse

original movie poster
Directed byMervyn LeRoy
Written byHervey Allen
(novel)
Sheridan Gibney
(screenplay)
StarringFredric March
Olivia de Havilland
Donald Woods
Anita Louise
Claude Rains
Louis Hayward
Gale Sondergaard
Steffi Duna
Akim Tamiroff
Music byErich Wolfgang Korngold
CinematographyTony Gaudio
Editing byRalph Dawson
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date(s)July 29, 1936
(Los Angeles premiere)
August 29, 1936
(nationwide)
Running time141 min
Country United States
LanguageEnglish
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Anthony Adverse is a 1936 American film based upon the novel by Hervey Allen.

The story revolves around the adventures of a young orphan (played by Fredric March) in the early 19th century. It was adapted by Sheridan Gibney and Milton Krims, and directed by Mervyn LeRoy, with uncredited direction by Michael Curtiz.

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. In addition, Gale Sondergaard won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold for the picture's musical score, parts of which he incorporated into his Violin Concerto.

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Mervyn LeRoy

Born October 15, 1900
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died September 13, 1987 (aged 86)
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.

Spouse(s) Edna Murphy (1927-1933)
Doris Warner (1934-1942)
Kitty Spiegel (1946-?) 2 children
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Hervey Allen (December 8, 1889—December 28, 1949) was an American author.

He was born William Hervey Allen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and graduated from University of Pittsburgh in 1915, where he also became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.
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Fredric March

photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1939.
Birth name Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel
Born July 31 1897(1897--)
Racine, Wisconsin
Died March 14 1975 (aged 79)
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Olivia de Havilland

from the trailer for In This Our Life
Birth name Olivia Mary de Havilland
Born July 1 1916 (1916--) (age 91)
Tokyo, Japan
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Donald James Woods, CBE (December 15, 1933 – August 19, 2001) was a South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist.
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Anita Louise

from the trailer for the film Marie Antoinette (1938).
Birth name Anita Louise Fremault
Born January 9 1915(1915--)
New York, New York, USA
Died
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Claude Rains

in the Mr. Skeffington trailer (1944)
Birth name William Claude Rains
Born November 10 1889(1889--)
London, England
Died May 30 1967 (aged 79)
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Louis Hayward (March 19 1909 – February 21 1985), was a British actor born in South Africa.

Born Seafield Grant in Johannesburg, Hayward was a slight man, 154 pounds, a trifle over 5'10" with dark brown hair and blue eyes.
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Gale Sondergaard

in the trailer for The Letter (1940)
Birth name Edith Holm Sondergaard
Born January 15 1899(1899--)
Litchfield, Minnesota, U.S.
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Steffi Duna (February 8, 1910 – April 22, 1992) was a Hungarian born film actress popular in American and British films during the 1930s. The daughter of a winemaker, Duna was 5'2" tall. Her ethnicity was Czechoslovakian.
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Akim Tamiroff (October 29, 1899, Tiflis (now Tbilisi), Georgia - September 17, 1972, Palm Springs, California) was an actor of Armenian ethnicity, trained at the Moscow Art Theatre drama school. He arrived in the US in 1923 on a tour with a troupe of actors and decided to stay.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold (May 29, 1897 – November 29, 1957) was a 20th century romantic composer.

Biography

Born in an assimilated Jewish home in Brno, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic), Erich was the son of the music critic Julius Korngold.
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Tony Gaudio (Gaetano Antonio Gaudio) (20 November 1883 - 10 August 1951) was the chief photographer for Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr, and the first cinematographer to use a montage sequence in a film.
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Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., or Warner Bros. (pronounced Warner Brothers), is one of the world's largest producers of film and television entertainment.

It is currently a subsidiary of the Time Warner conglomerate, with its headquarters in Burbank, California.
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July 29 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1900s  1910s  1920s  - 1930s -  1940s  1950s  1960s
1933 1934 1935 - 1936 - 1937 1938 1939

Year 1936 (MCMXXXVI
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August 29 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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English}}} 
Writing system: Latin (English variant) 
Official status
Official language of: 53 countries
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
ISO 639-3: eng  
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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
Anthem
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Hervey Allen (December 8, 1889—December 28, 1949) was an American author.

He was born William Hervey Allen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and graduated from University of Pittsburgh in 1915, where he also became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.
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Fredric March

photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1939.
Birth name Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel
Born July 31 1897(1897--)
Racine, Wisconsin
Died March 14 1975 (aged 79)
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Mervyn LeRoy

Born October 15, 1900
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died September 13, 1987 (aged 86)
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.

Spouse(s) Edna Murphy (1927-1933)
Doris Warner (1934-1942)
Kitty Spiegel (1946-?) 2 children
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Michael Curtiz

Birth name Manó Kertész Kaminer
Born November 24 1886(1886--)
Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Died March 10 1962 (aged 77)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
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The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards, awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which are voted on by others within the industry.
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Gale Sondergaard

in the trailer for The Letter (1940)
Birth name Edith Holm Sondergaard
Born January 15 1899(1899--)
Litchfield, Minnesota, U.S.
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Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold (May 29, 1897 – November 29, 1957) was a 20th century romantic composer.

Biography

Born in an assimilated Jewish home in Brno, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic), Erich was the son of the music critic Julius Korngold.
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The Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35, was composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold in 1945 following some initial persuasion from the violinist and fellow émigré Bronisław Huberman.
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