- Where Love Has Gone (film)
Infobox Film
name = Where Love Has Gone
caption = Original film poster
director =Edward Dmytryk
producer =Joseph E. Levine
writer =John Michael Hayes
Harold Robbins (novel)
starring =Susan Hayward Bette Davis
Mike Connors
Joey Heatherton
Jane Greer DeForest Kelley
George Macready .
music =Walter Scharf
cinematography = Joseph MacDonald
editing =
distributor =Paramount Pictures
released = flagicon|USA2 November 1964
runtime = 111 minutes
country =USA
awards =
language = English
budget =
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imdb_id = 0058745"Where Love Has Gone" is a 1964 film drama made by
Embassy Pictures , Joseph E. Levine Productions andParamount Pictures . It was directed byEdward Dmytryk and produced byJoseph E. Levine from ascreenplay byJohn Michael Hayes based on the novel of the same name byHarold Robbins . The music score was byWalter Scharf , the cinematography byJoseph MacDonald and the costume design byEdith Head .The film stars
Susan Hayward andBette Davis withMike Connors ,Joey Heatherton ,Jane Greer ,DeForest Kelley andGeorge Macready .Plot
The film begins with headlines stating that a young woman, Danny, (Joey Heatherton) has murdered a man, who was the latest lover of her mother Valerie Hayden (Susan Hayward). Danny's father, Luke Miller (Mike Connors) describes the events that led to the tragedy.
After the end of
World War II , Miller is inSan Francisco for a parade in his honor, and meets Valerie Hayden at an art show where one of her works is being exhibited. He is invited to dinner by Valerie' mother, Mrs. Gerald Hayden (Bette Davis), who offers him a job and dowry as an enticement for him to marry Valerie. He storms from the house but is followed by Valerie who says she is unable to go against her mother's wishes but that she admires him for having refused her. A relationship develops and the two marry, although a former suitor, Sam Corwin (DeForest Kelley) predicts that the marriage will fail.As time passes, Luke Miller becomes a successful architect and refuses another offer of employment from his mother-in-law, however the influential Mrs. Hayden uses her contacts in the banking industry to ensure that Miller is refused loans to help him build his business. He relents and accepts a position in Mrs. Hayden's company. Their daughter, Danny, is born but the relationship of the couple begins to deteriorate with Miller declining into alcoholism, and Valerie indulging in a promiscuous lifestyle. The marriage ends when Miller finds her having sex with another man.
Years pass and Danny grows up, and eventually Valerie and Danny become rivals for the same man. When Danny kills the man, she claims that she was defending Valerie against attack, and when the case is brought to court a verdict of justifiable homicide is ruled. When Mrs. Hayden petitions for custody of Danny, Valerie reveals that Danny was trying to kill her, and that the man was only killed when he tried to defend Valerie. Valerie returns home and commits suicide, and after her death Luke Miller tries to help Danny rebuild her life. [cite book |last= Ringgold |first= Gene |title= The Films of Bette Davis |year= 1966 |publisher= Cadillac Publishing Co. |pages= p 180-182 ]
Critical comments
Although Robbins and the studio refused to acknowledge a connection, some publications such as "
Newsweek " noted the similarities between the movie and the real-life case ofCheryl Crane , the daughter of actressLana Turner , who in1958 stabbed and killed her mother's boyfriend,Johnny Stompanato , claiming that she was defending Turner from attack. "Newsweek" wrote that the case seemed to have influenced the "foolish story" and described it as "a typical Harold Robbins pastiche of newspaper clippings liberally shellacked with sentiment and glued with sex". [cite book |last= Ringgold |first= Gene |title= The Films of Bette Davis |year= 1966 |publisher= Cadillac Publishing Co. |pages= p 183 ]The "Saturday Review" criticised the script saying that it "somehow manages to make every dramatic line (particularly when uttered by Susan Hayward) sound like a caption to a cartoon in "
The New Yorker ". [cite book |last= Ringgold |first= Gene |title= The Films of Bette Davis |year= 1966 |publisher= Cadillac Publishing Co. |pages= p 183 ]Nominations
The theme song "Where Love Has Gone" by
Jimmy Van Heusen andSammy Cahn was nominated for both anAcademy Award andGolden Globe as "Best Song".Notes and references
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