Wizard of love

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Movie
German title Wizard of love
Original title Eternally Yours
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1939
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Tay Garnett
script C. Graham Baker
Gene Towne
production Tay Garnett
Walter Wanger
music Werner Janssen
camera Merritt B. Gerstad
cut Otho Lovering
Dorothy Spencer
occupation

Magician of Love (alternative title: Love Tour , original title: Eternally Yours ) is a melodrama with elements of the comedy by United Artists from 1939. The film is directed by Tay Garnett , who also produced the film together with the unnamed Walter Wanger . The film is based on a screenplay by C. Graham Baker and Gene Towne . The main characters are Loretta Young and David Niven . Film composer Werner Janssen received an Oscar nomination.

action

Anital Halstead attends a performance by the magician Tony, called "The Great Arturo" , after her bridal shower on the occasion of her planned wedding to Don Burns . The two fall in love and get married on the spot. Then she becomes his assistant.

One evening Tony gets drunk in the presence of a female journalist, claiming that he could jump from an airplane flying at 4,600 meters, handcuffed behind his back. When the journalist makes this daring claim and he is forced to perform the stunt, he first tries to save himself with a false arm, but when he sees the expectant fans, he performs the stunt. He frees himself from the handcuffs and lands safely with the parachute . He then promises Anita that he will never do anything as daring again, but breaks that promise shortly afterwards and begins touring the world with the number.

Anita, however, wants to settle down and start a family. She secretly sells her jewelry and has a house built in the country in Connecticut . When it is finished, she shows Tony a picture of it, but since he shows only disinterest, she does not tell him that it is hers. When Tony finally signs a two-year contract, she gives up. She is getting a divorce in Reno . It is Anita's grandfather, Bishop Peabody, who brings the bad news to Tony.

On a cruise with her aunt Abby, she suddenly meets her former fiancé Don. She lets the captain of the ship marry her on the cruise. However, due to a tangle of circumstances, she spends the wedding night with her grandfather. The next day Don wants to introduce her to his boss, the nightclub owner Harley Bingham. On this day, however, The Great Arturo performs there with his old assistant Lola De Vere. Much to Anita's displeasure, he convinces Bingham to perform in one of his hotels.

Meanwhile, Bingham's wife also has a dilemma. You haven't booked enough rooms to house Tony and Lola separately as per the moral laws. They decide to house Tony and Dan and Anita and Lola together. Tony tries to win Anita back during the stay, but fails. Meanwhile, Don gets sick and has to stay in bed for a month.

Bishop Peabody is informed that Tony and Anita's divorce was illegal and that the two are still legally married to each other, so Don’s marriage to Anita is invalid. The same day Anita finds out about it, Tony wants to perform his famous stunt. But he forgot the lockpick on another plane. He still performs the stunt, but can only get dangerously close to the ground. He falls into the water and is brought to the bank unconscious. After he has come back to his senses, Anita rushes to his side. The two are reunited and move into their Connecticut home.

background

Actually, the producer Walter Wanger wanted to film the play L'illusioniste by Sacha Guitry , which was based on the true story of the illusion artists Émile Isola and Vincent Isola . However, this was too risky for the production company. The two screenwriters Gene Towne and G. Graham Baker made so many changes that Wanger was able to film the script without naming Guitry. Wanger had recordings of the film Trade Winds (1938) and the 1939 New York World's Fair used. Paul LePaul , a famous magician, was the film's technical advisor and had a cameo as a card animator.

The film costed $ 790,878 and was not very successful at the box office. It made a loss of 200,281 United States dollars.

It was the first film for Loretta Young after her contract with 20th Century Fox ended . She had already worked with Wanger in 1935 near Shanghai (1935). The flight tricks were performed by Paul Mantz .

The US version of the film is now public domain in the United States and can be viewed on the Internet Archive .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eternally Yours on tcm.com
  2. ^ Matthew Bernstein, Walter Wagner: Hollywood Independent , Minnesota Press, 2000. p. 440.
  3. ^ Western Aerospace , Volume 19 Western Aviation Magazine, 1939.
  4. ^ Eternally Yours in the Internet Archive , accessed February 8, 2013.