Norma Shearer
Irene Fellara
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The two surviving versions of the film's ending show the couple safe and happy after surviving the air raid. In an ending intended for international audiences, Irene asks Harry to play a hymn, something from his childhood. They quietly sing "Abide with Me", their backs turned to the furious air battle behind them.
- Clarence Brown, Hunt Stromberg
MGM filmed two endings for this film: one for American audiences and another, more spiritual and optimistic ending for International audiences because of the war clouds that were gathering in Europe.
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After a brief romance, they part at the end of their bookings, separating with a casual goodbye. Several years later, Harry is touring Europe with his six-girl song and dance team when, en route to Geneva, the border is closed and his troupe is forced to stay over at a hotel near an aviation field.
- Clarence Brown, Robert Golden
- Norma Shearer
Mar 28, 2019 · Other trivia: • The film was shot with two endings. One in the shown in the United States print was more frivolous and discussed them continuing on with their vaudeville act. The second ending was shown in Europe and had more of a solemn, anti-war message. • Based on Robert E. Sherwood’s from his 1936 Pulitzer-Prize-winning play.
May 25, 2015 · It can be brutal, but still laconic in its own way, a weirdly disjointed movie that gropes towards meaning without finding it– with an ending that is particularly unsatisfying. That’s fine. Idiot’s Delight ‘s true finish was still a half decade and millions of lives away.
Idiot’s Delight was adapted as a film in 1939, starring Clark Gable, Norma Shearer, and Burgess Meredith. Robert E. Sherwood adapted the screenplay from his own drama. Directed by Clarence Brown, released by MGM, the 1991 video is available from MGM/UA Home Video.
A group of disparate travelers are caught and thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the beginning of World War II. When song-and-dance man Harry Van returns from World War I, he finds work hard to come by.
