Never the Twain Shall Meet

Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931)

Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as "the icebox" by his news reporter friend. As one of his ships returns to San Francisco, Dan learns that the Captain has contracted Leprosy and asks Dan to be the guardian of his South Sea island daughter Tamea. Dan soon learns that Tamea wants him and will do nothing without a kiss. But Tamea soon learns that she is different than Dan and Maisie and that makes her angry. Dan decides to go and live on the island with Tamea, but soon finds out that Paradise is not everything that he thought it was.

Date of release
1931-05-16
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 19m
Genres
Drama
Director
W.S. Van Dyke

Casting

Interesting facts

Never the Twain Shall Meet is a 1931 American drama film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Leslie Howard and Conchita Montenegro. It is based on the novel of the same title by Peter B. Kyne. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and was filmed in Tahiti like Van Dyke's two previous south sea adventures The Pagan and White Shadows in the South Seas. The film is a remake of a 1925 silent film of the same name.

Production

In 1931, Leslie Howard was new to Hollywood, having only appeared in two films, Outward Bound (1930) and Devotion (1931). In the spring of 1931, he was filming Never the Twain Shall Meet, A Free Soul with Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and Five and Ten with Marion Davies—shooting one movie in the morning and another in the afternoon.

It was long rumored that Conchita Montenegro, barely 18 years old, and Howard had a brief affair either during filming or shortly thereafter. Spanish author José Rey Ximena refers to the alleged affair in his book El Vuolo de Ibis [The Flight of the Ibis]/ It is clear that Howard and Montenegro were fond of each other as evidenced by photos taken of the two in Madrid, Spain, in May 1943, shortly before Howard's death.

Arthur Freed wrote the theme song, "Islands of Love."

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