Hold Back the Dawn
Hold Back the Dawn is a 1941 American romantic drama film directed by Mitchell Leisen, in which a Romanian gigolo marries an American woman in Mexico in order to gain entry to the United States, but winds up falling in love with her. It stars Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois, Rosemary DeCamp, and an uncredited Veronica Lake.
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| Narrated by | Charles Boyer
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| Running time | 116 minutes
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| Country | United States
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Anita Dixon: No. No, Shaughnessy was a jockey from Caliente. Five foot three. Once over the border, I went to a judge. I said, a woman wants a man, not a radiator cap! Divorce granted, fifty dollars.
- Iscovescu appears at the Paramount soundstage to peddle his life story to director Mitchell Leisen. Veronica Lake and Richard Webb are shown rehearsing a scene from I Wanted Wings (also directed by Leisen). This scene was actually filmed during the production of "I Wanted Wings".
- The hotel in Tijuana where the immigrants wait anxiously for U.S. visas is the Hotel Esperanza. Esperanza is Spanish for "hope."
- The original script included an early scene where Charles Boyer talks to a cockroach in his room. Boyer dismissed the scene as idiotic and convinced director Mitchell Leisen to delete it; screenwriters Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett were so incensed at Leisen for giving in they resolved to direct and produce their own movies from then on.
- Paramount paid $5000 for Ketti Frings' story "Memo to a Movie Producer," before any novel was published. The working title of the movie therefore was "Memo to a Movie Producer," but was changed to "Hold Back the Dawn" when the novel was published before the movie was released.
- Mitchell Leisen joined the Screen Actors Guild so he could play the part of the director of I Wanted Wings, but he donated his acting wages to charity. The scene depicted from that movie was reshot specifically for inclusion in this movie.
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