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Dragonwyck is a 1946 American period drama film made by Twentieth Century-Fox. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Ernst Lubitsch (uncredited), from a screenplay by Mankiewicz, based on the novel Dragonwyck by Anya Seton.The music score was by Alfred Newman, and the cinematography by Arthur C. Miller.The film stars Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, and ...
Dragonwyck: Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan. A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
Dragonwyck is a novel written by American author Anya Seton which was first published in 1944. It is a fictional story of the life of Miranda Wells and her abusive marriage to Nicholas Van Ryn, set against a historical background of the Patroon system, Anti-Rent Wars, the Astor Place Riots, and steamboat racing on the Hudson River.. The novel was adapted into the film Dragonwyck (1946).
Mar 13, 2017 · Gene Tierney and Vincent Price star in an adaptation of Anya Seton's bestselling novel. Excellent fun for fans of Gothic romance and historical fiction.
For Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney), moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas (Vincent Price), seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes ...
In 1844, Abigail Wells receives a request from her previously-unknown wealthy distant cousin Nicholas Van Ryn, and she and her husband Ephraim Wells, a devout but poor Connecticut farmer who owns his own land, reluctantly allow one of their daughters, Miranda, the one with wanderlust, to accept the position of companion to Nicholas and his wife Johanna's 8-year-old daughter Katrine at ...
Produced at Twentieth-Century Fox by Darryl F. Zanuck and an uncredited Ernst Lubitsch, Dragonwyck (1946) was the first directorial effort by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who would go on to a storied directing career, including Oscar® wins for his work on A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950).Dragonwyck, based on a novel by Anya Seton, proved to be a genre-blending picture rooted ...
Aug 31, 2023 · Despite the movie’s strong aesthetic identity, “Dragonwyck,” like most of Mankiewicz’s work, is ultimately a cinema of ideas. For all its romantic melodrama, the movie is a masterpiece of ...
Aug 21, 2017 · Directed by Joseph L. MankiewiczStarring Gene Tierney, Vincent Price and Walter Huston
Apr 10, 2021 · Following its premiere in New York City on 10 April 1946, the 20th Century Fox's Dragonwyck went on general release in the US on 19 April, while UK cinemagoe...
