Arise, My Love Overview:

Arise, My Love (1940) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by Mitchell Leisen and produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr..

SYNOPSIS

In this Wilder-Brackett script, Colbert plays a reporter who saves a man (Milland) sentenced to death in a Spanish military prison in the aftermath of the Civil War. After he is freed, they run off to Paris but the war clouds gather. They sail for America but encounter the war once more and find themselves washed back to Europe.

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Academy Awards 1940 --- Ceremony Number 13 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Art DirectionHans Dreier, Robert UsherNominated
Best CinematographyCharles B. Lang, Jr.Nominated
Best Music - ScoringVictor YoungNominated
Best WritingBenjamin Glazer, John S. ToldyWon
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Tom Martin: You know, it's a funny thing that you of all people should be sitting beside me. You're precisely my type.
Augusta Nash: Mmm-hmm. How long were you in that prison?


[Father Jacinto, in Tom's cell, prepares him for death]
Father Jacinto: This is my first execution.
Tom Martin: Don't worry, Father, it's mine too.


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Claudette Colbert once said that this was her favorite of all of her films.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onJune 8, 1942 with Ray Milland reprising his film role.
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
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