Come and Get It

Come and Get It (1936)

YOUTH SACRIFICED! ON THE ALTAR OF POWER!

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.

Date of release
1936-11-06
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (46)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Howard Hawks, William Wyler

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Idaho
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 2. Including: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Come and Get It is a 1936 American lumberjack drama film directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler. The screenplay by Jane Murfin and Jules Furthman is based on the 1935 novel of the same title by Edna Ferber.

Production

Samuel Goldwyn paid $150,000 for the screen rights to the novel by Edna Ferber, who sold it to him on the basis that the film would be "primarily a story of the rape of America . . . by the wholesale robber barons of that day." Goldwyn was attracted to the melodramatic aspects of the story which called to mind director, Howard Hawks' film Barbary Coast, prompting him to hire Hawks for the picture.

Goldwyn announced Miriam Hopkins would play the dual roles of Lotta Morgan and Lotta Bostrom, but Hawks was not happy with his choice. He looked at numerous screen tests of aspiring starlets and finally settled on Andrea Leeds, who previously had played minor or uncredited roles in a handful of films.

Soon after filming began, Goldwyn underwent two major surgeries that incapacitated him for a lengthy period of time, keeping him away from the studio and the daily rushes. Hawks took advantage of the situation and allowed Furthman to change completely the tone of Ferber's original story; cast slender Walter Brennan as Swan Bostrom, a man Ferber had described as "the strongest man in the North woods;" and arrange a shooting schedule and budget Gol…

Upon returning to the studio, Goldwyn viewed a rough cut of the film and was shocked to discover Hawks had shifted the focus from the unbridled destruction of the land to a love triangle in which brawling Barney Glasgow and Swan Bostrom vied for the affections of lusty Lotta Morgan. The character of Richard Glasgow, intended to be the second lead, barely was in the film, which was cluttered with Hawks-like improvised bits of business.

William Wyler had begun post-production work on future Academy Award Best Picture-nominated Dodsworth when he was summoned to Goldwyn's home and told he would be completing Come and Get It. Wyler was loath to take over a film started by someone else, but Goldwyn threatened him with suspension if he refused to accept the assignment.

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