Forever, Darling
| Forever Darling | |
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| Directed by | Alexander Hall |
| Produced by | |
| Written by | Helen Deutsch |
| Starring |
Lucille Ball James Mason |
| Music by | Bronislau Kaper |
| Cinematography | Harold Lipstein |
| Edited by | |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Release date
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1956 |
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Running time
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96 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $951,000 |
| Box office | $2,288,000 |
Forever, Darling is a 1956 American romantic comedy film with fantasy overtones, starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, and James Mason, and directed by Alexander Hall. The original screenplay by Helen Deutsch focuses on a married couple whose troubled marriage is saved with the help of a guardian angel.
After five years of marriage, chemical engineer Lorenzo Xavier Vega (Arnaz) tends to neglect his wife Susan (Ball) in favor of his work. When she wishes aloud that she had a more attentive spouse, her Guardian Angel – coincidentally the mirror image of her favorite movie star (Mason) – appears.
The angel advises Susan to take a greater interest in Lorenzo's career, so she agrees to accompany him on a camping trip to test the revolutionary new insecticide he's developed.
Susan's dream of a second honeymoon turns into a nightmare when everything that possibly could go wrong does. She becomes determined to save her marriage before it's too late.
The script originally was entitled Guardian Angel and had been written by Deutsch as a vehicle for Myrna Loy and William Powell a dozen years earlier. Later, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy were set to be in the same scenario, but eventually fell through. When Lucy and Desi Arnaz expressed interest in another film, the studio, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, dug this script out of their unused screenplay archives for the comedy couple's new scenario for the film.
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release partially was filmed on location in Yosemite National Park. Interiors were shot at the Desilu Studios in Culver City, California. It was the first time Desilu was involved in feature film production.
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