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** Creator/VivienLeigh really wanted to play Catherine alongside her husband Creator/LaurenceOlivier. As she was then-unknown in Hollywood, they went with the original choice Merle Oberon. Vivien was offered the part of Isabella, but she turned that down. Instead she took the lead role in another little film released in 1939--''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. Creator/BetteDavis and Creator/KatharaineHepburn were also considered.
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** Creator/VivienLeigh really wanted to play Catherine alongside her husband Creator/LaurenceOlivier. As she was then-unknown in Hollywood, they went with the original choice Merle Oberon. Vivien was offered the part of Isabella, but she turned that down. Instead she took the lead role in another little film released in 1939--''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. Creator/BetteDavis and Creator/KatharaineHepburn Creator/KatharineHepburn were also considered.
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* BannedInChina: Banned in Quebec - because the film featured scenes of infidelity that Samuel Goldwyn refused to cut.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Although they did actually import real heather from England to make it look more like Yorkshire. According to Creator/DavidNiven's autobiography, the heather took to the warm Californian sun and tripled in size - requiring filmmakers to cut it back before shooting.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Although they did actually import real heather from England to make it look more like Yorkshire. According to Creator/DavidNiven's autobiography, the heather took to the warm Californian sun and tripled in size - requiring filmmakers to cut it back before shooting.
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* BannedInChina: Banned in Quebec - because Quebec--because the film featured scenes of infidelity that Samuel Goldwyn refused to cut.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Although they did actually import real heather from England to make it look more like Yorkshire. According to Creator/DavidNiven's autobiography, the heather took to the warm Californian sun and tripled insize - requiring size--requiring filmmakers to cut it back before shooting.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Although they did actually import real heather from England to make it look more like Yorkshire. According to Creator/DavidNiven's autobiography, the heather took to the warm Californian sun and tripled in
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** Merle Oberon and Creator/LaurenceOlivier clashed repeatedly - since both were miserable at having to leave their loved ones at home in the UK. Laurence Olivier wasn't too fond of Creator/WilliamWyler's direction either, but later admitted that he helped him understand the difference between acting for film and stage.
** Merle Oberon had a more mild version with Creator/DavidNiven. The two had been involved briefly for about a year not long beforehand - so working together was uncomfortable.
* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: For the barnyard scenes, it was feared that the ducks and geese would make too much noise - so the animal trainer actually ''snipped their vocal cords''.
** Merle Oberon had a more mild version with Creator/DavidNiven. The two had been involved briefly for about a year not long beforehand - so working together was uncomfortable.
* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: For the barnyard scenes, it was feared that the ducks and geese would make too much noise - so the animal trainer actually ''snipped their vocal cords''.
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** Merle Oberon and Creator/LaurenceOlivier clashed repeatedly - since repeatedly--since both were miserable at having to leave their loved ones at home in the UK. Laurence Olivier wasn't too fond of Creator/WilliamWyler's direction either, but later admitted that he helped him understand the difference between acting for film and stage.
** Merle Oberon had a more mild version with Creator/DavidNiven. The two had been involved briefly for about a year not longbeforehand - so beforehand--so working together was uncomfortable.
* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: For the barnyard scenes, it was feared that the ducks and geese would make too muchnoise - so noise--so the animal trainer actually ''snipped their vocal cords''.
** Merle Oberon had a more mild version with Creator/DavidNiven. The two had been involved briefly for about a year not long
* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: For the barnyard scenes, it was feared that the ducks and geese would make too much
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* TroubledProduction: Pretty much no one was happy with director Creator/WilliamWyler and his fondness for numerous takes (David Niven's first scene had about forty). So many of the actors clashed with each other - Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon got into a shouting match over him accidentally spitting on her. Both of them also had foot injuries throughout filming, requiring them to hobble during their scenes. As mentioned above, Merle was hospitalized with a fever briefly due to the excessive takes of the storm scene. By the end of filming, it was thirteen days over schedule and $100,000 over budget.
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* TroubledProduction: Pretty much no one was happy with director Creator/WilliamWyler and his fondness for numerous takes (David Niven's first scene had about forty). So many of the actors clashed with each other - Laurence other--Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon got into a shouting match over him accidentally spitting on her. Both of them also had foot injuries throughout filming, requiring them to hobble during their scenes. As mentioned above, Merle was hospitalized with a fever briefly due to the excessive takes of the storm scene. By the end of filming, it was thirteen days over schedule and $100,000 over budget.
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** Creator/VivienLeigh really wanted to play Catherine alongside her husband Creator/LaurenceOlivier. As she was then-unknown in Hollywood, they went with the original choice Merle Oberon. Vivien was offered the part of Isabella, but she turned that down. Instead she took the lead role in another little film released in 1939 - ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. Creator/BetteDavis and Creator/KatharaineHepburn were also considered.
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** Creator/VivienLeigh really wanted to play Catherine alongside her husband Creator/LaurenceOlivier. As she was then-unknown in Hollywood, they went with the original choice Merle Oberon. Vivien was offered the part of Isabella, but she turned that down. Instead she took the lead role in another little film released in 1939 - ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''.1939--''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. Creator/BetteDavis and Creator/KatharaineHepburn were also considered.
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** Creator/VivienLeigh really wanted to play Catherine alongside her husband Creator/LaurenceOlivier. As she was then-unknown in Hollywood, they went with the original choice Merle Oberon. Vivien was offered the part of Isabella, but she turned that down. Instead she took the lead role in another little film released in 1939 - ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''.
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** Creator/VivienLeigh really wanted to play Catherine alongside her husband Creator/LaurenceOlivier. As she was then-unknown in Hollywood, they went with the original choice Merle Oberon. Vivien was offered the part of Isabella, but she turned that down. Instead she took the lead role in another little film released in 1939 - ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. Creator/BetteDavis and Creator/KatharaineHepburn were also considered.
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* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Rumors abound that the time period was moved forward to allow a short-of-funds Creator/WilliamWyler to reuse costumes from a Civil War drama. Others claim the time period was changed simply because Samuel Goldwyn thought Victorian fashions were more attractive than Regency Era ones.
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* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Rumors abound that the time period was moved forward to allow a short-of-funds Creator/WilliamWyler to reuse costumes from a Civil War drama. Others claim the time period was changed simply because Samuel Goldwyn thought Victorian fashions were more attractive than Regency Era ones.1770s-80s fashions.
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* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Rumors abound that the time period was moved forward to allow a short-of-funds Creator/WilliamWyler to reuse costumes from a Civil War drama. Others claim the time period was changed simply because Samuel Goldwyn thought the Victorian fashions were more attractive than Regency Era ones.
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** Creator/VivienLeigh really wanted to play Catherine alongside her husband Creator/LaurenceOlivier. As she was then-unknown in Hollywood, they went with the original choice Merle Oberon. Vivien was offered the part of Isabella, but she turned that down. Instead she took the lead role in another little film released in 1939 - ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/WilliamWyler hated Sam Goldwyn's GhostReunionEnding idea, and it's often been reported that Goldwyn got another director to film the scene after Wyler refused.
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* BannedInChina: Banned in Quebec - because the film featured scenes of infidelity that Samuel Goldwyn refused to cut.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Although they did actually import real heather from England to make it look more like Yorkshire. According to Creator/DavidNiven's autobiography, the heather took to the warm Californian sun and tripled in size - requiring filmmakers to cut it back before shooting.
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Samuel Goldwyn claimed that this was his favorite production.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Merle Oberon's distress when Cathy runs out into the storm looking for Heathcliff was quite real; she had to do take after take running into propeller driven water and eventually got hospitalised with a fever.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/WilliamWyler hated Sam Goldwyn's GhostReunionEnding idea, and it's often been reported that Goldwyn got another director to film the scene after Wylerrefused.refused.
* FocusGroupEnding: The film was originally going to end with a shot of Heathcliff's corpse in the snow, but at producer Samuel Goldwyn's insistence, this ending was replaced with a romantic shot of Heathcliff and Cathy's spirits wandering the moors, TogetherInDeath. By the time the new ending was filmed, Creator/LaurenceOlivier and Merle Oberon had both moved on to other projects, so stand-ins took their place, which explains why the two ghosts are only seen from behind. As mentioned above, director Creator/WilliamWyler hated the new ending, but almost every subsequent film and TV adaptation of the book has ended in a similar way.
* HostilityOnTheSet:
** Merle Oberon and Creator/LaurenceOlivier clashed repeatedly - since both were miserable at having to leave their loved ones at home in the UK. Laurence Olivier wasn't too fond of Creator/WilliamWyler's direction either, but later admitted that he helped him understand the difference between acting for film and stage.
** Merle Oberon had a more mild version with Creator/DavidNiven. The two had been involved briefly for about a year not long beforehand - so working together was uncomfortable.
* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: For the barnyard scenes, it was feared that the ducks and geese would make too much noise - so the animal trainer actually ''snipped their vocal cords''.
* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Rumors abound that the time period was moved forward to allow a short-of-funds Creator/WilliamWyler to reuse costumes from a Civil War drama. Others claim the time period was changed simply because Samuel Goldwyn thought the fashions were more attractive than Regency Era ones.
* TroubledProduction: Pretty much no one was happy with director Creator/WilliamWyler and his fondness for numerous takes (David Niven's first scene had about forty). So many of the actors clashed with each other - Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon got into a shouting match over him accidentally spitting on her. Both of them also had foot injuries throughout filming, requiring them to hobble during their scenes. As mentioned above, Merle was hospitalized with a fever briefly due to the excessive takes of the storm scene. By the end of filming, it was thirteen days over schedule and $100,000 over budget.
* WagTheDirector: In Cathy's death scene, Creator/WilliamWyler insisted that Creator/DavidNiven break down. When Niven told him his contract said he would never have to cry on-camera, Wyler didn't believe him. Niven got the contract and the "no crying" clause was in there. Still, Wyler won in the end and had menthol mist sprayed into Niven's eyes to make them water, since he couldn't produce tears on command; the result was that green mucus ran from Niven's nose, causing Merle Oberon to bolt from the bed in disgust as soon as she was finished playing "dead."
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/VivienLeigh really wanted to play Catherine alongside her husband Creator/LaurenceOlivier. As she was then-unknown in Hollywood, they went with the original choice Merle Oberon. Vivien was offered the part of Isabella, but she turned that down.
** Creator/RonaldColman, Creator/DouglasFairbanksJr and Creator/JamesMason were considered for the role of Heathcliff before Laurence Olivier was finally cast.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Although they did actually import real heather from England to make it look more like Yorkshire. According to Creator/DavidNiven's autobiography, the heather took to the warm Californian sun and tripled in size - requiring filmmakers to cut it back before shooting.
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Samuel Goldwyn claimed that this was his favorite production.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Merle Oberon's distress when Cathy runs out into the storm looking for Heathcliff was quite real; she had to do take after take running into propeller driven water and eventually got hospitalised with a fever.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/WilliamWyler hated Sam Goldwyn's GhostReunionEnding idea, and it's often been reported that Goldwyn got another director to film the scene after Wyler
* FocusGroupEnding: The film was originally going to end with a shot of Heathcliff's corpse in the snow, but at producer Samuel Goldwyn's insistence, this ending was replaced with a romantic shot of Heathcliff and Cathy's spirits wandering the moors, TogetherInDeath. By the time the new ending was filmed, Creator/LaurenceOlivier and Merle Oberon had both moved on to other projects, so stand-ins took their place, which explains why the two ghosts are only seen from behind. As mentioned above, director Creator/WilliamWyler hated the new ending, but almost every subsequent film and TV adaptation of the book has ended in a similar way.
* HostilityOnTheSet:
** Merle Oberon and Creator/LaurenceOlivier clashed repeatedly - since both were miserable at having to leave their loved ones at home in the UK. Laurence Olivier wasn't too fond of Creator/WilliamWyler's direction either, but later admitted that he helped him understand the difference between acting for film and stage.
** Merle Oberon had a more mild version with Creator/DavidNiven. The two had been involved briefly for about a year not long beforehand - so working together was uncomfortable.
* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: For the barnyard scenes, it was feared that the ducks and geese would make too much noise - so the animal trainer actually ''snipped their vocal cords''.
* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Rumors abound that the time period was moved forward to allow a short-of-funds Creator/WilliamWyler to reuse costumes from a Civil War drama. Others claim the time period was changed simply because Samuel Goldwyn thought the fashions were more attractive than Regency Era ones.
* TroubledProduction: Pretty much no one was happy with director Creator/WilliamWyler and his fondness for numerous takes (David Niven's first scene had about forty). So many of the actors clashed with each other - Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon got into a shouting match over him accidentally spitting on her. Both of them also had foot injuries throughout filming, requiring them to hobble during their scenes. As mentioned above, Merle was hospitalized with a fever briefly due to the excessive takes of the storm scene. By the end of filming, it was thirteen days over schedule and $100,000 over budget.
* WagTheDirector: In Cathy's death scene, Creator/WilliamWyler insisted that Creator/DavidNiven break down. When Niven told him his contract said he would never have to cry on-camera, Wyler didn't believe him. Niven got the contract and the "no crying" clause was in there. Still, Wyler won in the end and had menthol mist sprayed into Niven's eyes to make them water, since he couldn't produce tears on command; the result was that green mucus ran from Niven's nose, causing Merle Oberon to bolt from the bed in disgust as soon as she was finished playing "dead."
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/VivienLeigh really wanted to play Catherine alongside her husband Creator/LaurenceOlivier. As she was then-unknown in Hollywood, they went with the original choice Merle Oberon. Vivien was offered the part of Isabella, but she turned that down.
** Creator/RonaldColman, Creator/DouglasFairbanksJr and Creator/JamesMason were considered for the role of Heathcliff before Laurence Olivier was finally cast.
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