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May 13, 2005 - 8:15 AM
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manderley
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.....I remember this as a wonderful tearjerker starring Jane Wyman as a self sacrificing nanny. It has a great ending too. The score by Waxman I recall as quite good but it has been quite a long time since Ive seen it - probably over 20 years -what about the music tracks - do they exist? and what has happened to the film - why is it never shown?.....
Some years ago I had the pleasure of working with Wyman and we had a little chat about this film which I had not seen at that point and wanted to very much. She very much wanted to see it again, herself, but couldn't find any copies around.
In the ensuing years I found a nice print of it, watched it, and indeed, it is one of those wonderful "tearjerkers" Hollywood used to turn out so long ago. I believe Wyman, as well as several others, were nominated for Oscars for this film.
It was a Wald-Krasna (Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna) Production for RKO release and joined several other W-K productions, including "Behave Yourself" with Farley Granger and Shelley Winters and "Clash By Night" with Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan and Marilyn Monroe, in the Turner Entertainment/RKO Pictures library now at Warner Bros.
"Behave Yourself" appears to have fallen into public domain, "Clash By Night" runs occasionally on TCM (and apparently will be in the next Film Noir DVD box set to be put out by Warners), but "The Blue Veil" is nowhere to be seen, as you indicated.
I checked on this with Turner some years ago and while they apparently have print material, the problem is one of "underlying rights" which have not been cleared: The original story is by a French author (perhaps based on a novel), and there may even be a competing French film version of the material, but I'm not sure of this.
There are a number of other Turner-owned films which they have yet not been able to clear including "Flame and the Flesh" with Lana Turner, "Port of Seven Seas" with Wallace Beery and Maureen O'Sullivan (based on Pagnol's Marseille trilogy), "Night Flight", a Gable vehicle based on a work by St. Exupery, and "Letty Lynton", a Joan Crawford picture particularly known for its legendary fashions.
In the old days, when a studio wanted to make a film they were usually pretty thorough about tying up ALL rights to the material if they could do so. Sometimes it just wasn't possible and they had to go with the limited rights they were granted.
In the case of a big studio like MGM, when they wanted to re-make another studio's film, they would not only buy the rights, but the negatives as well. That's why the original negatives of RKO's ROBERTA (remade as LOVELY TO LOOK AT), Universal's two SHOW BOAT versions, Selznick's PRISONER OF ZENDA, Universal's IT'S A DATE (remade as NANCY GOES TO RIO), Paramount's two DR. JEKYLL AND MR HYDE versions, the French film BALLERINA (remade as THE UNFINISHED DANCE), the English GASLIGHT, and the French version of GIGI, among others, ended up in the MGM library.
The best we can do is hope that one day THE BLUE VEIL will be considered valuable enough on the video market to be paid for and cleared.
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There are a couple of films I've been awaiting the appearance of on TURNER CLASSICS that should be in their domain--the 1956 RKO release, THE BOLD AND THE BRAVE with Wendell Corey, Don Taylor, and Mickey Rooney (with a fine score by Herschel Burke Gilbert), and the 1940 Warner Ronald Reagan film that seemed to run on WGN in Chicago about every month back in the 50's, INTERNATIONAL SQUADRON.
I haven't seen either of these flicks on TV since the early-to-mid 60's. Any ideas why, Manderley?
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