The Story of Dr. Wassell

The Story of Dr. Wassell
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Cecil B. DeMille
Produced by	Cecil B. DeMille
Screenplay by	Alan Le May Charles Bennett
Story by	Corydon M. Wassell James Hilton
Starring	Gary Cooper Laraine Day Signe Hasso Dennis O'Keefe Carol Thurston
Music by	Victor Young
Cinematography	Victor Milner William E. Snyder
Edited by	Anne Bauchens
Production company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	July 4, 1944 (1944-07-04) (USA)
Running time	140 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Story of Dr. Wassell is a 1944 American Technicolor World War II film set in the Dutch East Indies, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso and Dennis O'Keefe. The film was based on a book of the same name by novelist and screenwriter James Hilton, his only nonfiction book.

The book and film were inspired by the wartime activities of U.S. Navy Doctor Corydon M. Wassell which were referred to by President Roosevelt in a radio broadcast made in April 1942. The appropriate section of this broadcast appears toward the end of the film.

For their work on this film, Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings and George Dutton received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.^[1]

Cast

Gary Cooper as Dr. Corydon M. Wassell
Laraine Day as Madeleine
Signe Hasso as Bettina
Dennis O'Keefe as Benjamin 'Hoppy' Hopkins
Carol Thurston as Tremartini
Carl Esmond as Lt. Dirk Van Daal
Paul Kelly as Murdock
Elliott Reid as William 'Andy' Anderson
Stanley Ridges as Cmdr. William B. 'Bill' Goggins
Renny McEvoy as Johnny Leeweather
Oliver Thorndike as Alabam
Philip Ahn as Ping
Barbara Britton as Ruth
unbilled players include Richard Aherne, Irving Bacon, Sven Hugo Borg, Victor Borge, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Doran, Milton Kibbee, Elmo Lincoln, Richard Loo, Gavin Muir, Jack Norton and Philip Van Zandt

Production

It was originally announced that Yvonne de Carlo would play the role of the Javanese nurse.^[2]

De Mille wanted Alan Ladd to play the role of Hoppy but he had to go into military service.^[3]

Reception

The film was the seventh most popular film of the year released in Australia in 1945.^[4]

It was the fifth most popular movie of 1946 in France with admissions of 5,866,693.http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/&prev=search

In popular culture

In the Truman Capote novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, Holly Golightly was to have auditioned for the role of Dr. Wassel's nurse, but impulsively left for New York City.

References

↑ "The 17th Academy Awards (1945) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2013-06-23.
↑ "DRAMA: 'Cousin' Rewrite Set; Hubbard Joining Cast" Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times 18 Feb 1943: A8.
↑ "DRAMA AND FILM: O'Keefe Wins 'Hoppy' Role in 'Dr. Wassell' Carmen Miranda Lively Addition to 'Greenwich Village' at 20th" Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times 23 June 1943: A8.
↑ "News About Movies.". The Mail (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 12 January 1946. p. 8. Retrieved 4 March 2013.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Story of Dr. Wassell.

The Story of Dr. Wassell at the American Film Institute Catalog
The Story of Dr. Wassell at the Internet Movie Database
Roosevelt: 'A Call for Sacrifice', April 28, 1942

Films directed by Cecil B. DeMille

Silent	The Squaw Man (1914) Brewster's Millions (1914) The Master Mind (1914) The Only Son (1914) The Man on the Box (1914) The Call of the North (1914) The Virginian (1914) What's His Name (1914) The Man from Home (1914) Rose of the Rancho (1914) The Ghost Breaker (1914) The Girl of the Golden West (1915) After Five (1915) The Warrens of Virginia (1915) The Unafraid (1915) The Captive (1915) The Wild Goose Chase (1915) The Arab (1915) Chimmie Fadden (1915) Kindling (1915) Carmen (1915) Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915) The Cheat (1915) Temptation (1915) The Golden Chance (1915) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916) The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916) Maria Rosa (1916) The Dream Girl (1916) Joan the Woman (1916) Lost and Won (1917) A Romance of the Redwoods (1917) The Little American (1917) The Woman God Forgot (1917) Nan of Music Mountain (1917) The Devil-Stone (1917) The Whispering Chorus (1918) Old Wives for New (1918) We Can't Have Everything (1918) Till I Come Back to You (1918) The Squaw Man (1918) Don't Change Your Husband (1919) For Better, for Worse (1919) Male and Female (1919) Why Change Your Wife? (1920) Something to Think About (1920) Forbidden Fruit (1921) The Affairs of Anatol (1921) Fool's Paradise (1921) Saturday Night (1922) Manslaughter (1922) Adam's Rib (1923) The Ten Commandments (1923) Triumph (1924) Feet of Clay (1924) The Golden Bed (1925) The Road to Yesterday (1925) The Volga Boatman (1926) The King of Kings (1927) Walking Back (1928) The Godless Girl (1929)

Sound	Dynamite (1929) Madam Satan (1930) The Squaw Man (1931) The Sign of the Cross (1932) This Day and Age (1933) Four Frightened People (1934) Cleopatra (1934) The Crusades (1935) The Plainsman (1936) The Buccaneer (1938) Union Pacific (1939) North West Mounted Police (1940) Reap the Wild Wind (1942) The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) Unconquered (1947) California's Golden Beginning (1948) Samson and Delilah (1949) The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) The Ten Commandments (1956) The Buccaneer (1958)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, February 19, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.