Today We Live

Today We Live (1933)

Without regret or remorse..with pride in the sacrifice of self..she burned up her youth..for them..living dangerously..Regardless of Tomorrow.

Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."

Date of release
1933-03-03
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (20)
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
Drama, Romance, War
Director
Howard Hawks

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Turnabout
  • Filmed in: California

Today We Live is a 1933 American pre-Code romance drama film produced and directed by Howard Hawks and starring Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young and Franchot Tone.

Production

With the working titles, "We Live Again" and "Turn About", Howard Hawks purchased an option on Faulkner's short story, "Turnabout" of men in combat as a star vehicle for Phillips Holmes, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, and later, Clark Gable.

Once Crawford was signed, an effort to go for a similar star name led to Cooper coming on board, on loan from Paramount two weeks after the projected date of principal photography, although some sources indicate that Cooper, Robert Young and Franchot Tone were Hawks' first choices. Press releases had touted that Crawford had insisted on Cooper as her co-star.

After obtaining General Douglas MacArthur's help in reserving March Field in California, individual aerial sequences were shot although footage from Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels (1930) including the bomber mission, the "dogfight" sequence complete with the head-on collision of two aircraft, was merged into the final production print.

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