The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944 film)
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | |
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 Original film poster |
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| Directed by | Rowland V. Lee |
| Produced by | Rowland V. Lee Benedict Bogeaus |
| Written by | Howard Estabrook Herman Weissman Thornton Wilder (novel) |
| Starring | Lynn Bari Francis Lederer Akim Tamiroff Alla Nazimova |
| Music by | Dimitri Tiomkin |
| Cinematography | John W. Boyle John J. Mescall |
| Editing by | Harvey Manger |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) |  11 February 1944 |
| Running time | 107 min |
| Country | U.S. |
| Language | English |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 1944 drama film made by Benedict Bogeaus Productions and released by United Artists. It was produced and directed by Rowland V. Lee with Benedict Bogeaus as co-producer. The screenplay was by Howard Estabrook and Herman Weissman, adapted from the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder. The music score was by Dimitri Tiomkin and the cinematography by John W. Boyle and John J. Mescall.
The film stars Lynn Bari, Francis Lederer, Akim Tamiroff, Alla Nazimova and Louis Calhern.
Despite a low budget and several notable deviations from the Thornton Wilder novel, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score (Dimitri Tiomkin).
Background and production
The film and novel are very loosely based on the real life story of Micaela Villegas (1748—1819), a famous Peruvian entertainer known as La Perichole, whose life was also the inspiration for the novella Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement by Prosper Mérimée, an opéra bouffe, La Périchole by Jacques Offenbach, Jean Renoir’s 1953 film Le Carrosse d'or (The Golden Coach) and an earlier part-talkie film version of The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929) starring Lili Damita.
The film was remade once more in 2004 with the title The Bridge of San Luis Rey and starring F. Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates and Pilar López de Ayala.
Cast
- Lynn Bari as Micaela Villegas
- Akim Tamiroff as Uncle Pio
- Francis Lederer as Esteban / Manuel
- Alla Nazimova as Doña Maria
- Louis Calhern as Don Andre
- Donald Woods as Brother Juniper
- Blanche Yurka as The Abbess
- Emma Dunn as Doña Mercedes
- Barton Hepburn as Don Rubio
- Joan Lorring as Pepita
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