Miss Susie Slagle's

Miss Susie Slagle's (1946)

A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.

Date of release
1946-03-04
TMDB
8.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Drama
Director
John Berry

Casting

Interesting facts

Miss Susie Slagle's is a 1946 American drama film directed by John Berry. It was based on the popular novel by Augusta Tucker. The film was Berry's directorial debut and first starring role for Joan Caulfield.

Production

Augusta Tucker's novel was published in 1939. Paramount paid $20,000 for the film rights. The novel became a best seller. A sequel came out in 1942, The Man Miss Susie Loved.

In 1939 Martin Berkley was assigned to write the script. John Cromwell was assigned to direct under the supervision of Arthur Hornblow.

In January 1941 Paramount announced Jean Arthur would star and Sam Wood would produce and direct with Lorraine Nobel writing a script. Jack Oakie was to play the comic male lead. In May 1941 Irene Dunne was named as lead. In June 1941 filming was postponed so Wood could make For Whom the Bell Tolls.

In August 1943 the project was reactivated when Paramount head of production Buddy DeSylva have it to producer John Houseman, who had just made The Unseen for the studio.

In January 1944 the project was officially put back on Paramount's schedule with a new screenplay done (Hugo Butler was borrowed from MGM to do this) and Betty Field listed as star. The novel was set in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins Hospital but references to that specific city and hospital were removed from the script.

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