The Razor's Edge (1946) |
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| Director(s) | Edmund Goulding |
| Producer(s) | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Marriage, Romantic Rivalry, Socialites |
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Tyrone Power(as Larry Darrell)
The Razor's Edge
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1946
The Razor's Edge
Released
1946
Tyrone Power
(as Larry Darrell)
Gene Tierney(as Isabel Bradley)
The Razor's Edge
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1946
The Razor's Edge
Released
1946
Gene Tierney
(as Isabel Bradley)
John Payne(as Gray Maturin)
The Razor's Edge
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1946
The Razor's Edge
Released
1946
John Payne
(as Gray Maturin)
Anne Baxter(as Sophie MacDonald)
The Razor's Edge
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1946
The Razor's Edge
Released
1946
Anne Baxter
(as Sophie MacDonald)
Clifton Webb(as Elliott Templeton)
The Razor's Edge
Released
1946
The Razor's Edge
Released
1946
Clifton Webb
(as Elliott Templeton)
Herbert Marshall(as W. Somerset Maugham)
The Razor's Edge
Released
1946
The Razor's Edge
Released
1946
Herbert Marshall
(as W. Somerset Maugham)
Lucile Watson(as Louisa Bradley)
The Razor's Edge
Released
1946
The Razor's Edge
Released
1946
Lucile Watson
(as Louisa Bradley)
Frank Latimore(as Bob MacDonald)
The Razor's Edge
Released
1946
The Razor's Edge
Released
1946
Frank Latimore
(as Bob MacDonald)
The Razor's Edge Overview:
The Razor's Edge (1946) was a Drama - Film Adaptation Film directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.
The film was based on the novel of the same name written by W. Somerset Maugham published in 1944.
Academy Awards 1946 --- Ceremony Number 19 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Supporting Actor | Clifton Webb | Nominated |
| Best Supporting Actress | Anne Baxter | Won |
| Best Art Direction | Art Direction: Richard Day, Nathan Juran; Interior Decoration: Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox | Nominated |
| Best Picture | 20th Century-Fox | Nominated |
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The Razor's Edge Quotes:
Elliott Templeton:
[Recounting a series of rejected invitations] And then when I asked him to dinner, he said he couldn't come because he had no evening clothes. If I live to be a hundred I shall never understand how any young man can come to Paris without evening clothes.
Louisa Bradley: [Referring to the turning down of the invitations] Maybe he just didn't want to.
Elliott Templeton: That's the most incredible reason for refusing an invitation I've ever heard in my life.
Louisa Bradley: [Referring to the turning down of the invitations] Maybe he just didn't want to.
Elliott Templeton: That's the most incredible reason for refusing an invitation I've ever heard in my life.
Elliott Templeton:
The enjoyment of art is the only remaining ecstasy that's neither immoral nor illegal.
Elliott Templeton:
I do not like the propinquity of the hoi polloi.
Louisa Bradley:
Elliott, who is this man you invited to dinner tonight?
Elliott Templeton: He's an English author.
[Referring to W. Somerset Maugham]
Elliott Templeton: He's quite alright. In fact he's quite famous. So pretend you've heard of him even if you haven't.
Elliott Templeton: He's an English author.
[Referring to W. Somerset Maugham]
Elliott Templeton: He's quite alright. In fact he's quite famous. So pretend you've heard of him even if you haven't.
Isabel Bradley:
[Referring to Sophie MacDonald] She's an awful woman. She's bad, bad, bad! She's soused from morning to night.
W. Somerset Maugham: That doesn't necessarily mean she's bad. Quite a number of respectable citizens get drunk and do silly things... I call a person bad who lies and cheats and is unkind.
Isabel Bradley: If you're going to take her part, I'll kill you.
W. Somerset Maugham: I'd prefer it if you gave me a cup of tea.
See More Quotes from The Razor's EdgeW. Somerset Maugham: That doesn't necessarily mean she's bad. Quite a number of respectable citizens get drunk and do silly things... I call a person bad who lies and cheats and is unkind.
Isabel Bradley: If you're going to take her part, I'll kill you.
W. Somerset Maugham: I'd prefer it if you gave me a cup of tea.
The Razor's Edge Facts
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Like Larry Darrell, the character he played, Tyrone Power also served as a pilot during the war. Power served in World War II as a Marine airmen, rising from the rank of private to first lieutenant.
Christopher Isherwood and Henry Channon are considered by many Maugham biographers to be the inspiration for the characters of Larry Darrell and Elliott Templeton.
Alexander Knox, Anne Revere, Marcel Dalio, and Philip Merivale (who was actually born in India) were earlier choices for the roles played by Herbert Marshall, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Barron, and Cecil Humphreys.
When filming the hospital scene, Anne Baxter drew upon an experience from her childhood, when she lost her three-year-old brother. Speaking of it years later, she said the scene was the best in her career, and still gave her chills.
W. Somerset Maugham was hired to write a screenplay, which is still on file in studio records. It is uncertain how much of his version, if any, was used in the final script.