Green Dolphin Street (1947) is a historic drama film starring Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, and Richard Hart, with a screenplay by Samson Raphaelson based on the historical novel Green Dolphin Country (1944) by Elizabeth Goudge. The film was directed by Victor Saville, produced by Carey Wilson and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1948, the film won the Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
The title song "Green Dolphin Street" (someti...
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Green Dolphin Street (1947) is a historic drama film starring Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, and Richard Hart, with a screenplay by Samson Raphaelson based on the historical novel Green Dolphin Country (1944) by Elizabeth Goudge. The film was directed by Victor Saville, produced by Carey Wilson and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1948, the film won the Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
The title song "Green Dolphin Street" (sometimes given as "On Green Dolphin Street") is a song written for the film by Bronislaw Kaper and Ned Washington. This song has become a jazz standard recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, and Bill Evans among others.
Turner and Heflin reprised their roles in a Lux Radio Theatre version of Green Dolphin Street on 19 September 1949.
In the 1840s, two sisters fall in love with the same man. While drunk, he writes a letter proposing marriage to the wrong one.
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