Eternally Yours (film)

Wizard of Love ( Alternative title: Liebestournée, original title: Eternally Yours). 's A melodrama with elements of comedy by United Artists from 1939 director of the film is Tay Garnett, who also produced the film, together with the unnamed Walter Wanger. The film is based on a screenplay by C. Graham Baker and Gene Towne. The main characters are Loretta Young and David Niven. Composer Werner Janssen received an Oscar nomination.

Action

Anital Halstead visited by her bridal party on the occasion of their planned wedding with Don Burns an idea of the magician Tony, called " The Great Arturo". The two fall in love and get married on the spot. Then she becomes his assistant.

One evening Tony gets drunk in the presence of a female journalist and brags that he can jump down from a tied at a height of 4,600 meters flying airplane with handcuffs behind his back. As a journalist reproduces them this reckless assertion and he is forced to perform the stunt, he tries first with a false arm to save, but when he sees the expectant fans, he pulls the stunt by. He frees himself from handcuffs and lands safely with a parachute. After the stunt he promises Anita first, never to do something daring again, but this promise breaks shortly thereafter and begins with the number on the globe to tour.

Anita, however, wants to settle down and start a family. Secretly, they sold their jewelry and leaves in Connecticut to build a house on the land. When it is completed, it shows Tony a picture of it, but since he only shows disinterest, she conceals him that it is her. When Tony finally also signed a two- year contract, she gives up. You can divorce in Reno. It is Anita's grandfather, Bischoff Peabody, Tony delivers the bad news.

On a cruise with her ​​Aunt Abby, she meets her former fiance abruptly Don. You can still trust on the cruise by the captain of the ship. However, through a tangle of circumstances, she spends the wedding night with her grandfather. The next day Don want to introduce her to his boss, the nightclub owner Harley Bingham. On this day, however, there occurs The Great Arturo with his old assistant Lola De Vere on. Much to Anita's displeasure, he convinced Bingham to appear in one of his hotels.

Meanwhile, Bingham's wife also has a dilemma. You have not posted enough room to Tony and Lola in accordance with the moral law should be isolated. You decide Tony and Dan and Anita and Lola accommodate together. Tony tries during the stay Anita zurüchzugewinnen, but fails. Meanwhile, Don is sick and must stay in bed for a month.

Bischoff Peabody is informed that the divorce between Tony and Anita was illegal, the two are therefore still legally married to each other, so that Dons marriage is invalid with Anita. On the same day, when Anita finds out, Tony wants his famous stunt list. But he has the Dietrich forgotten in another aircraft. He leads the stunt yet, but can close only dangerous free on the ground. He falls into the water and is brought unconscious to the shore. After he comes to his senses, Anita rushes to his side. The two are reunited and move into her house in Connecticut.

Background

Actually, the producer Walter Wanger wanted the play L' illusioniste of Sacha Guitry film, which was based on the true story of illusion artist Émile Isola and Vincent Isola. However, this was the production company too risky. The two screenwriters Gene Towne and Graham Baker G. therefore made ​​so many changes, the Wanger could film the script without giving Guitry. Wanger was shooting the film Trade Winds (1938 ) and the 1939 New York World's Fair Use. Paul LEPAUL, a famous magician was technical advisor to the film and had a cameo as a card trick artist.

The film cost 790 878 U.S. dollars at the box office and was not very successful. He recorded a loss of 200 281 United States dollars.

For Loretta Young, it was the first movie to their end of the contract with 20th Century Fox. With Wanger she had already worked together in 1935 at Shanghai (1935 ). Flight feats were performed by Paul Mantz.

The U.S. version of the film is now in the United States public domain and can be viewed on the Internet Archive.

1939 in film Film score Merritt B. Gerstad Otho Lovering Dorothy Spencer Reno (Nevada) Cameo appearance
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