RANDOM HARVEST 1942 MOVIE

He warns her that revealing her identity would only cause Charles to resent her.Īs Kitty grows up, she sends Charles love letters, and they become engaged. Jonathan Benet, who works at the Melbridge asylum, is her confidant and admirer. Paula becomes his executive assistant under her real name, Margaret Hanson, hoping that her presence will jog his memory. One day, she sees Charles's picture and story in a magazine. Their son died as an infant, and she now works as a secretary. Meanwhile, Paula has been searching frantically for her Smithy. After a few years, a newspaper touts him as the 'Industrial Prince of England'.

Charles wants to return to college, but the mismanaged family business needs him, and he puts off his own desires to safeguard the jobs of his many employees and restore the family fortune. Kitty, the stepdaughter of one of Charles's siblings, becomes infatuated with her 'uncle'. Charles returns home on the day of his father's funeral. None of his meager possessions, including a key, provide any clue about where he has been. He is Charles Rainier, the son of a wealthy businessman. When he regains consciousness, his past memory is restored, but his life with Paula is now forgotten. Paula remains home with their newborn son while Smithy goes to Liverpool for a job interview with a newspaper. 'Smithy', as Paula calls him, discovers he has some literary talent. They fall in love and marry, renting a small cottage and eventually having a son. After an incident that threatens to bring unwanted attention, Paula takes Smith to a secluded country village in Devon, where they stay at an inn run by Mrs. She guesses he is from the asylum, but as he seems harmless, she arranges for him to join her traveling theatrical group. In town, he is befriended by a singer with the stage name Paula Ridgeway. Greer Garson from the trailer for Random Harvest

On the day the war ends, the asylum's gatekeepers abandon their posts to join the celebration in the nearby Midlands town of Melbridge, and Smith wanders away. In the last days of the First World War, a British officer who had been gassed in the trenches and lost his memory is confined to an English asylum as 'John Smith', an unidentified inmate. Garson, whose performance was well-received, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, but won that year for her role in Mrs. The film was an instant commercial success and was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Colman, Best Supporting Actress for Susan Peters, Best Director for Mervyn LeRoy and Best Picture. The film stars Ronald Colman as a shellshocked, amnesiac World War I veteran, and Greer Garson as his love interest.

RANDOM HARVEST 1942 MOVIE

This meant that the movie had to take a very different approach to the story. The novel keeps the true identity of Paula/Margaret a secret until the very end, something that would have been impossible in a film, where characters’ faces must be seen. Claudine West, George Froeschel, and Arthur Wimperis adapted the novel for the screen, and received an Academy Award nomination. Random Harvest is a 1942 American romantic drama film based on the 1941 James Hilton novel of the same title, directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

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