Waterloo Bridge (1931 film)
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| Directed by | James Whale |
| Produced by | Carl Laemmle Jr |
| Written by | Tom Reed (screenplay) Benn Levy (screenplay) Robert E. Sherwood (play) |
| Starring | Mae Clarke Douglass Montgomery Bette Davis |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | Sep 1, 1931 |
| Running time | 81 min. 72 min. (later re-release) |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Waterloo Bridge is a 1931 drama film made by Universal Pictures, directed by James Whale and produced by Carl Laemmle Jr.. The screenplay was by Benn Levy and Tom Reed from the popular Broadway play by Robert E. Sherwood. The film stars Mae Clarke and Douglass Montgomery (billed as Kent Douglass), and features one of the earliest appearances by Bette Davis.
The story of this Pre-Code film concerns a chorus girl turned prostitute in World War I and her meeting and relationship with a naive young soldier.
(1931 was a banner year for Mae Clarke. She also played the woman into whose face James Cagney pushed a grapefruit in The Public Enemy as well as Elizabeth, the bride of Dr. Frankenstein stalked by Boris Karloff in the original version of Frankenstein.)
[edit] Remakes
- Waterloo Bridge (1940), starring Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor, in which the original story has been sanitized.
- Gaby (1956), a color film starring Leslie Caron and John Kerr, with a completely new ending to the story.
[edit] DVD release
The film was released on DVD on 5 December 2006, along with two other Pre-Code films, Baby Face and Red-Headed Woman, under the title of TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 1.
