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Summer Storm (1944) was a Drama - Film directed by Douglas Sirk and produced by Seymour Nebenzal.

Academy Awards 1944 --- Ceremony Number 17 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Music - ScoringKarl HajosNominated
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Summer Storm BlogHub Articles:

George Sanders and Linda Darnell in Douglas Sirk's "Summer Storm"

By Stephen Reginald on May 14, 2023 From Classic Movie Man

George Sanders and Linda Darnell in Douglas Sirk's "Summer Storm" Summer Storm (1944) is a romance melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk, starring George Sanders and Linda Darnell. The supporting cast includes Edward Everett Horton, Hugo Haas, and Anna Lee. The film is based on the novel The Hunti... Read full article

Summer Storm (1944)

By Beatrice on Dec 1, 2014 From Flickers in Time

Summer Storm Directed by Douglas Sirk Written by Rowland Leigh, Douglas Sirk, and Robert Thoeren from the novel “The Shooting Party” by Anton Chekhov 1944/USA Angelus Productions/Nero Films First viewing/Netflix rental Amazingly, the filmmakers decided to promote Linda Darnell as the... Read full article

O que Matou por Amor (1944) / Summer Storm (1944)

By Lê on Nov 30, -0001 From Critica Retro

O que Matou por Amor (1944) / Summer Storm (1944) Até mesmo grandes diretores começaram dando pequenos passos. Hoje nosso foco é um filme de Douglas Sirk feito para os estúdios Angelus Pictures e Nero Film, ambos praticamente esquecidos na atualidade. Nero Film, assim como Sirk, tinha como... Read full article

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Summer Storm Quotes:

Fedor Mikhailovich Petroff: You're so beautiful; why is it that you degrade everything you touch?
Fedor Mikhailovich Petroff: When a man pities his rival, he's preparing to pity himself.
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Summer Storm Facts
The source story by Anton Chekhov, 'The Shooting Party', is set in the 1840's, but director Douglas Sirk moved up the setting to the 1910s so the framing sequences at the beginning and the end would take place after the Russian Revolution. "With guys like Fedor and the Count going around, there had to be a revolution," Sirk explained.
Before hiring Rowland Leigh, director Douglas Sirk had asked James M. Cain to write the film, but he fired Cain and junked his script because Cain had made the characters seem too American.
Douglas Sirk had originally wanted to film Anton Chekhov's 'The Shooting Party' at the German UFA studio before he fled Germany in 1937. He had wanted actor Willy Birgel to play Fedor, and when he made the U.S. version he picked George Sanders because he considered Sanders a similar "type" to Birgel.
The writing credit to "Michael O'Hara" is a pseudonym for director Douglas Sirk. He picked the name because when he started this movie he had just finished reading 'Appointment in Samarra' by John O'Hara.
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