Waterloo Bridge is a 1940 remake of the 1931 film of the same title.
The film was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin and Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay is by S. N. Behrman, Hans Rameau and George Froeschel, based on the popular Broadway drama by Robert E. Sherwood. The music is by Herbert Stothart and cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg. The films stars Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh, her first film after the success of Gone with the Wind.
A simple tale of love gained and lost, the film tells the story of a chance encounter during World War I between a dancer and an officer on Waterloo Bridge during an air raid. Waterloo Bridge was a success at the box office and nominated for 2 Academy Awards - Best Music for Herbert Stothart and Best Cinematography. It was also considered a personal favourite by both Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor.
Waterloo Bridge is a 1931 drama film made by Universal Pictures, directed by James Whale and produced by Carl Laemmle Jr.. The screenplay was by Benn Levy and Tom Reed from the popular Broadway play by Robert E. Sherwood. The film stars Mae Clarke and Douglass Montgomery (billed as Kent Douglass), and features one of the earliest appearances by Bette Davis.
The story of this Pre-Code film concerns a chorus girl turned prostitute in World War I and her meeting and relationship with a naive young soldier.
(1931 was a banner year for Mae Clarke. She also played the woman into whose face James Cagney pushed a grapefruit in The Public Enemy as well as Elizabeth, the bride of Dr. Frankenstein stalked by Boris Karloff in the original version of Frankenstein.)
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate. Written by Dale O'Connor
