Winter Meeting

Winter Meeting (1948)

You've told me your secret, now I'll tell you mine.

A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.

Date of release
1948-04-07
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Bretaigne Windust

Casting

Interesting facts

Winter Meeting is a 1948 American drama film directed by Bretaigne Windust and starring Bette Davis and Jim Davis. The screenplay, based on the novel of the same name by Grace Zaring Stone, was written by Catherine Turney.

Production

William Grant Sherry introduced his wife Bette Davis to the novel Winter Meeting and suggested it as a possibility for her next film. Davis enlisted her friend Catherine Turney to write a screen adaptation and stayed in close touch with her throughout the process, sending her memos about sequences that concerned her.

The casting of Slick Novak proved to be problematic. Burt Lancaster turned the role down because he did not like the script and did not find the character to be believable. Richard Widmark tested well, but studio executives were concerned his portrayal of a sadistic killer in the previous year's Kiss of Death would make it difficult for audiences to accept him in a sympathetic role.

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