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The Lost Moment (1947) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Martin Gabel and produced by Walter Wanger.

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The Lost Moment (1947)

By Beatrice on Mar 5, 2015 From Flickers in Time

The Lost Moment Directed by Martin Gabel Written by Leonardo Bercovici based on the novel “The Aspern Papers” by Henry James 1947/USA Walter Wanger Productions First viewing/Amazon Prime Instant Video The best thing about this noirish Gothic melodrama is Agnes Moorehead as an 105-yea... Read full article

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The Lost Moment Quotes:

Lewis Venable: Miss Bordereau, I shouldn't like to come here against your will.
Tina Bordereau: [Referring to Juliana] It's her will that counts.
Juliana Borderau: I never sleep. I hear every sound in this house.
Lewis Venable: Had Jeffrey Ashton once lived in this cold, forbidding house? I felt the past close in around me like a fog. The door to the present shut behind me.
Lewis Venable: In that fearfully incredible moment I knew I had plunged off a precipice into the past. That here was Juliana beyond belief, beautiful, alluring, alive. How strange this was, this Tina, who walked dead among the living and living among the dead, filling me with a nameless fear! I had a sudden impulse to turn and leave, and then I remembered the letters.
Father Rinaldo: [Describing Miss Juliana's medical condition] From a medical point of view she's dying, but then she's been dying for many years.
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The Lost Moment Facts
A number of UK big names were on the shortlist for the male lead.
James first published 'The Aspern Papers' in the March-May editions of 'The Atlantic Monthly'. In the original story the heroine's name was Tita. In later editions of the story James changed the name to Tina.
Henry James based the story on an anecdote he had heard when he was in Florence in 1879. Jane Clairmont, the half-sister of Shelley's wife Mary and the mother of Byron's daughter Electra, was still alive and that an unscrupulous Shelley devotee had posed as a lodger in order find any unpublished papers. After the aged Jane died, her niece offered the papers to him, but at a price.
In 1962 Michael Redgrave successfully adapted the story to the New York stage starring Maurice Evans and Wendy Hiller.
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