Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers (1945)

Mr. Chips Is Back In A New Thrilling Romance!

After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.

Date of release
1945-10-15
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (29)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Alexander Korda

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Academy Award for Best Story

Perfect Strangers, is a 1945 British drama film produced and directed by Alexander Korda and starring Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr. It was written by Clemence Dane and Anthony Pelissier based on a story by Dane. The music score was by Clifton Parker and the cinematography by Georges Périnal.

Production

Perfect Strangers was meant to be the first of a number of British-made co-productions between Alexander Korda and M-G-M. Other proposed projects included Lottie Dundass with Vivien Leigh from a story by Edith Bagnold, a biopic of Robert Louis Stevenson starring Robert Donat, a version of War and Peace directed by Orson Welles and starring Korda's wife, Merle Oberon, and an untitled Carol Reed project.

By March 1944, the film was about to start filming at Denham Studios. Korda announced he would now make only one to three films per year, compared to the 12 to 16 he had previously intended to make.

Shooting did not begin until May. The delay had come about for several reasons: the script was constantly rewritten to account for changes in the war, Ruggles fell ill with the flu shortly after he arrived in England, and Donat was involved in a play. Then Donat fell ill and Ruggles left the project after an argument with Korda. It was the first feature Korda had directed since Rembrandt.

The film did some location shooting in Scotland, but was shot primarily in London.

No subsequent films came from the agreement, because Korda bristled at being bossed around by MGM's head of production, Louis B. Mayer.

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