Tender Is the Night

Tender Is the Night (1962)

1920s, the French Riviera: wealthy expatriate Nicole Warren's mental illness strains her marriage to psychiatrist Dick. A young American actress named Rosemary Hoyt arrives and is drawn into their circle, becoming romantically involved with the older, married Dick and disrupting the fragile balance of the group. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to another sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them all.

Date of release
1962-01-19
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (12)
Runtime
2h 22m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Henry King

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Tender Is the Night
  • Filmed in: Switzerland
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: National Board of Review Award for Best Actor

Tender Is the Night is a 1962 American film directed by Henry King and starring Jennifer Jones and Jason Robards, Jr. King's last film, it is based on the 1934 novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Production

Henry King said he had been offered the project ten years earlier but "turned it down. I thought it was obnoxious, I thought it was the worst subject matter. The story of Tender is the Night is about a man who seduces his twelve-year-old daughter. That's really a degenerate part." However the director was pleased by the changes Ivan Moffat made in his adaptation and agreed to take the job.

King says when he finished the film he "wanted to do a little last minute editing." However Buddy Adler, the head of the studio, had died and was replaced by Robert Goldstein, who refused to let King make the changes. According to King, "there were just little things wrong, that put the emphasis on the wrong place, on the wrong person. I couldn't go over his head. I couldn't steal the picture and cut it myself.

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