COMING SOON
"WUTHERING HEIGHTS" AT
SOUTHBRIDGE
The huge set for the ball at "Thrushcross Grange," in the production of Emily Bronte's classic, "Wuthering Heights," which will be shown at Southhridge shortly is eclipsed in size only by the gigantic palace of the Khan in "Marco Polo," which took up the entire interior of one stage.
For this sequence, the producer employed seventy-four extras including forty-one who were trained
dancers. The set itself comprised four rooms of the downstairs of the Georgian mansion inhabited by the Linton family of the story. The house, its furnishings and the garden which was planted under direction of Nick Stadler, Goldwyn's wizard of growing things, was assayed at more than f25,000.
Two sequences of the story were filmed on this stage, the first when the young Cathy (Merle Oberon) and Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) spy on the party and are caught when a watchdog sinks his fangs into Miss Oberon's leg.
The second takes place on Heathcliff's return from America when he stalks like a spectre of malice and foreboding into a dance to claim Isabella (Geraldine Fitzgerald) to be his bride.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 18, 7 March 1941, Page 5
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186COMING SOON Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 18, 7 March 1941, Page 5
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