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This movie appears in part in the first-season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise: Dear Doctor (2002)).
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Producer Buddy G. DeSylva and producer/director Sam Wood's second choice for Maria was Lenore Aubert had Ingrid Bergman turned it down. DeSylva and Wood told Aubert they were either going to go with Bergman because she was a big star or with Aubert who wasn't as well known yet, the way David O. Selznick and George Cukor did with Vivien Leigh - who, at the time Gone with the Wind (1939) was being cast, was not as big a star as Joan Bennett, Jean Parker or Paulette Goddard.
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"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60-minute radio adaptation of the movie on February 12, 1945, with Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper and Akim Tamiroff reprising their film roles.
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The top-grossing US film of 1943.
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Ernest Hemingway had Ingrid Bergman in mind as "Maria" while he was writing the novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls".
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It took 24 weeks to shoot the film (July-October 1942). The first 12 weeks were shot at Sonora Pass in the Sierra Nevada, the last 12 weeks were shot at the Paramount Studio in California.
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There is a nifty detail in one of the early scenes which is left unexplained to the audience but underscores Robert Jordan's personality. It occurs when Jordan meets with General Goltz in the saloon to discuss his next mission. Since there was no bartender, Jordan starts to pour himself a drink. It is not scotch, vodka or bourbon. No. Jordan pours some water into a glass, then places a slotted spoon (with a sugar cube presumably) over the rim and pours a bit of alcohol from the bottle over the sugar. That can mean only one thing: Jordan's drink of choice is Absinthe ! Absinthe is a green colored liqueur which has a bitter licorice flavor and can be up to 75 proof with powerful, possibly hallucinogenic effects. It's made from wormwood and other herbs. Believed to be too dangerous in the US, it was banned from Prohibition to July 2007. It was a favored drink for Vincent Van Gogh, Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway. Later, in the cave, Jordan pulls out his hip flask to pour himself a little drink but holds back from sharing with the others. He says, "...you wouldn't like this "medicine." It's the wormwood." Now, Robert Jordan is a robust, Type "A", controlled person but he also prefers to sip "The Green Devil", Absinthe: a bitter liquid and acquired taste which in excess literally could drive a person off a cliff. This bit of inconsistency in his personality is left unexplained to the average viewer of this film yet means a lot to those who know of this drink and what it means.
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Ernest Hemingway's novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls" was a 1940 best-seller and reportedly was sold to Paramount Pictures for $100,000.
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This film saved the famous love song "As Time Goes By" from being removed from Casablanca (1942). Ingrid Bergman began filming this movie immediately after completing "Casablanca". For this role, her hair was cut short. Meanwhile, for "Casablanca", Warner Brothers wanted to substitute another song for "As Time Goes By" and re-shoot some scenes with Bergman. However, since her hair had been cut, there would be a problem with continuity (even if Bergman wore a wig), so the idea was dropped.
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For her role in this film, Katina Paxinou became the first actress to win Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards.
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At the film's conclusion, Gary Cooper's horse falls and breaks its leg. The only horse the crew could get to do the stunt was brown, but Cooper's horse throughout the film was gray. Rather than re-shoot much of the film, Cooper's brown stunt horse was painted gray.
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The first of three films in three successive years that were nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for Ingrid Bergman as well as Best Picture and Best Actor. The other two are: Gaslight (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945). Ingrid Bergman won Best Actress for Gaslight.
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Ernest Hemingway insisted that Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman star in the film, despite the fact that Vera Zorina had already been cast as María and her hair had been cropped.
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Banned in Spain until 1978.
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In the Hemingway novel, Robert Jordan makes his last stand with a submachine gun (most probably a Thompson, or "Tommy Gun"). In the film, the weapon is a Lewis machine gun, a larger, heavier and usually crew-served weapon.
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Ingrid Bergman's first color film.
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Henry Fonda was considered for the role of Robert Jordan.
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According to Gary Cooper's daughter, Ernest Hemingway had Cooper in mind for the role of Robert Jordan even before he wrote the original novel.
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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