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Release Date: 1947

Cast: Gladys Cooper, Reginald Owen, Donna Reed, Edmund Gwenn, Frank Morgan, May Whitty, Van Heflin, Lana Turner, Richard Hart

Categories: Movies, Historical Epic, Romance Film, Epic, Black-And-White, Adventure, Period Piece, Melodrama, Drama Film

Green Dolphin Street is a 1947 historic drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the 1840s, two sisters fall in love with the same man. While drunk, the man writes a letter proposing marriage to the wrong one. The film stars Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, and Richard Hart, and features a screenplay by Samson Raphaelson based on the historical novel Green Dolphin Country (1944) by Elizabeth Goudge. The film was directed by Victor Saville and produced by Carey Wilson. Turner and Heflin reprised their roles in a Lux Radio Theatre version of Green Dolphin Street on 19 September... MORE

Green Dolphin Street is a 1947 historic drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the 1840s, two sisters fall in love with the same man. While drunk, the man writes a letter proposing marriage to the wrong one. The film stars Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, and Richard Hart, and features a screenplay by Samson Raphaelson based on the historical novel Green Dolphin Country (1944) by Elizabeth Goudge. The film was directed by Victor Saville and produced by Carey Wilson. Turner and Heflin reprised their roles in a Lux Radio Theatre version of Green Dolphin Street on 19 September 1949. Hart and Heflin, who played romantic rivals in Green Dolphin Street, were similarly cast in B.F.'s Daughter (1948). Hart made only four feature films before his death at an early age, two of them co-starring Heflin. In 1948, the film won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. It was also nominated in the categories Cinematography (Black-and-White), Film Editing, Sound Recording (Douglas Shearer) and Special Effects. The film's title song, "Green Dolphin Street" (often recorded as "On Green Dolphin Street"), went on to become a jazz standard. The song has been recorded by Eric Dolphy, The LESS