Green Mansions (1959)
March 19, 1959Release Date
Green Mansions (1959)
March 19, 1959Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Audrey Hepburn
Rima
Anthony Perkins
Abel
Lee J. Cobb
Nuflo
Sessue Hayakawa
Runi
Henry Silva
Kua-Ko
Nehemiah Persoff
Don Panta
Michael Pate
Priest
Estelle Hemsley
Cla-Cla
Yoneo Iguchi
Native Guide
Bill Saito
Native Guide
Ron Veto
Native
Mel Ferrer
Director
Dorothy Kingsley
Writer
William Henry Hudson
Writer
Dorothy Jeakins
Costume Design
Franklin Milton
Recording Supervision / Sound Recordist
Edmund Grainger
Producer
A. Arnold Gillespie
Special Effects
Bronislau Kaper
Composer
Robert Willoughby
Still Photographer
Joseph Ruttenberg
Cinematographer
Ferris Webster
Editor
Lee LeBlanc
Special Effects
E. Preston Ames
Art Direction
Henry Grace
Set Decoration
Robert H. Justman
Assistant Art Director
Alan Lomax
Thanks
William A. Horning
Art Direction
Jerry Wunderlich
Set Decoration
Katherine Dunham
Other / Choreographer
Cliff Shirpser
Visual Effects
Sidney Cutner
Original Music Composer
Sydney Guilaroff
Hairstylist
Charles K. Hagedon
Color Designer
Robert Franklyn
Music
William Tuttle
Makeup Artist
Robert R. Hoag
Special Effects
Robert E. Relyea
Assistant Art Director / Assistant Director
Pierre-Dominique Gaissseau
Thanks
John Truwe
Makeup Artist
Robert H. Justman
Assistant Director
John Logan
Sound Editor
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Original Music Composer / Music
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 19, 1959
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Content RatingNR
Budget$3,000,000
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Green Mansions is a 1959 American adventure-romance film directed by Mel Ferrer. It is based upon the 1904 novel Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson. The film starred Audrey Hepburn (who at the time was married to Ferrer) as Rima, a jungle girl who falls in love with a Venezuelan traveller played by Anthony Perkins. Also appearing in the film were Lee J. Cobb, Sessue Hayakawa and Henry Silva. The score was by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Bronislau Kaper.
The film was intended to be the first of several projects directed by Ferrer and starring his wife, but ultimately this was the only one released. It was one of the few critical and box office failures of Hepburn's career. Vincente Minnelli had been slated to direct the film, but delays in the project led Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to choose Ferrer to direct.
The film was the first feature film to be photographed using Panavision lenses for 35mm anamorphic widescreen cinematography; however, the process listed on the titles was CinemaScope, the 35mm anamorphic widescreen process developed in the early 1950s by 20th Century-Fox in conjunction with the U.S. optical company Bausch and Lomb. MGM resented having to both rent the special lenses and pay a royalty to Fox for use of the CinemaScope credit on its films, so it engaged Panavision, a then small Los Angeles-area manufacturer of anamorphic projection lenses for theaters, to develop anamorphic lenses for photographing MGM's widescreen productions. Given the popularity and public awareness of the CinemaScope brand, MGM entered in to an agreement with Fox to continue paying for the use of the CinemaScope title on its productions while actually using the new Panavision lenses and listing a small credit elsewhere in the titles, "Process Lenses by Panavision". Projected in the theater, the processes are identical in terms of the size of the film used and the screen width and height. By the late 1960s, Fox adopted Panavision for use on its 35mm anamorphic widescreen productions and withdrew the CinemaScope lenses from the market as Panavision had become the motion picture industry's standard due to its reputation for superior optical performance.