Won Academy Awards for Best Actress (Davis) and Best Supporting Actress (Bainter). Nominated for Cinematography, Score and Best Picture. A romantic melodrama with views of early 1850s New Orleans ante-bellum society. It was the first in a cycle of films with Dixie backdrops that studied Southern chivalry and honor. The role of the title character was offered as compensation to film star Bette Davis – her first major film role – when she lost the opportunity to play Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind (1939), a characterization with a similar heroine. In fact, the film has been called a black-and-white version of the famous Selznick film that was in its pre-production stages. Director: William Wyler Story: Clements Ripley Screenwriters: Abem Finkel, John Huston, Robert Buckner Composer: Max Steiner Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Fay Bainter, Donald Crisp
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julia is a spoiled immature evil bitch…women have no honor at all.
Does anyone know either the name of or the lyrics to the first song the slaves are singing, the one that starts with “if I live until the spring gonna get a wedding ring” I have always wondered and never been able to find it!
What?????????? Get some Jesus!
Raise A Ruckus Tonight ..
what an stunning scene… Bette Davis was an amazing actress..
aw… the little brother is so handsome and hotheaded
Bette Davis is amazing in this film. I love 9.33: “Have the little yankee join in” … that just says so much about Julie and her pain over losing Pres. I loooove this film.
Thank you Megaswenson for your excellent comments. They have added to the enjoyment of this classic movie
If you’ve read a few of the (many, many) plantation novels from the thirties, the names, particularly ‘Pres’ and ‘Julie’ are so thirties. ‘Rob’ was big, too. One of my Grandmothers wrote a novel on the same general theme (While lying in her great Rosewood bed, in her 1840s plantation house, dictating to a secretary). My other Grandmother had dozens of Old South novels, tucked upstairs in the Library, apart from the more intellectual ‘ Living Room books’ strangers were allowed to see.
Why what adorable negro children…simply delightful!
is that burgis meredith?