Green Dolphin Street
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| 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 |
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Release date
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5 November 1947 |
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Running time
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142 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4,391,000 |
| Box office | $7,173,000 |
Green Dolphin Street is a 1947 historical drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and based on the novel by Elizabeth Goudge.
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. The father cannot read the letter, so the mother does. The letter asks for Marianne's hand in marriage. Marianne, decides to set off for New Zealand to be with him. William expecting Marguerite, realizes later when he sees Marianne come off the boat that he wrote the wrong name in the letter. When the mother is on her deathbed, she tells Marguerite a story about love and marriage and tells her to apply it to her own life, as a hint that William was not the man for her.
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.
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.
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