Green Mansions (film)

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Green Mansions
Directed by	Mel Ferrer
Produced by	Edmund Grainger
Written by	William Henry Hudson (novel) Dorothy Kingsley
Starring	Anthony Perkins Audrey Hepburn
Music by	Bronislau Kaper Heitor Villa-Lobos Sidney Cutner (uncredited)
Cinematography	Joseph Ruttenberg
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	19 May 1959
Running time	104 min.
Language	English
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Green Mansions is a 1959 American romantic adventure film directed by Mel Ferrer. Based upon the 1904 novel Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson, the film starred Audrey Hepburn (who at the time was married to Ferrer) as Rima, a jungle girl who falls in love with a traveller played by Anthony Perkins. Also appearing in the film were Lee J. Cobb, Sessue Hayakawa and Henry Silva. The score was by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Bronislaw Kaper; Villa-Lobos adapted his full score into a cantata, Forest of the Amazons, then recorded it with the Symphony of the Air for United Artists Records.

The film was intended to be the first of several projects directed by Ferrer and starring his wife, but ultimately this was the only one released. It was one of the few critical and box office failures of Hepburn's early career. Originally, Vincente Minnelli had been slated to direct the film, but delays in the project led MGM to choose Ferrer to direct it.