Dreaming Lips (1937)
Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays Gabrielle, the glamorous, spoiled wife of world-famous orchestra leader Peter (Romney Brent). Left alone by her constantly touring husband, she inaugurates a romance with brilliant but reclusive violinist Miguel de Vaye (Raymond Massey).
- Date of release
- 1937-02-02
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Paul Czinner
Casting
- Elisabeth Bergner — Gaby Lawrence
- Raymond Massey — Miguel del Vayo
- Romney Brent — Peter Lawrence
- Joyce Bland — Christine
- Sydney Fairbrother — Mrs. Stanway
- Felix Aylmer — Sir Robert Blaker
Interesting facts
- Based on: Dreaming Lips
Dreaming Lips is a 1937 British drama film directed by Paul Czinner and starring Elisabeth Bergner, Romney Brent and Raymond Massey.
Production
The film was produced by Trafalgar Film Productions with art direction by Thomas N. Morahan. It was a remake of the 1932 German film Dreaming Lips also directed by Czinner and starring Bergner which had been based on the play Mélo by Henri Bernstein. In 1953 Josef von Báky remade the film in Germany, based on the original script by Czinner and Mayer.
The script would be Mayer's last, as he would die of cancer in 1944.
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