![]() ![]() He’s an amnesiac World War I veteran, she’s on the stage–a combination of song an. Almost the entire first hour (of two and a nickel), the film chronicles the blissful romance of Greer Garson and Ronald Colman. It’s hard to imagine a more supreme melodrama than Random Harvest. Read full article Random Harvest (1942, Mervyn LeRoy)By Andrew Wickliffe on From The Stop Button Hilton also penned screenplays for Hollywood, winning an Academy Award for his script for Jan. Chips and Lost Horizon emerging as the undisputed classics. Seven of his books have been made into films, some more than once, with Goodbye, Mr. James Hilton is a somewhat familiar name for old movie fans. Random Harvest (1942)By Michaela on From Love Letters to Old Hollywood Read full article Garson and Colman melt hearts in. Theirs is the story of Paula Ridgeway and Smithy, or Charles Rainier and Margaret Hanson, or closer yet, both of these stories together. He’s the perfect gentleman and Greer Garson is his perfect counterpart. There’s not a mean bone in Ronald Colman’s body. Read full article Random Harvest (1942)By 4 Star Film Fan on From 4 Star Films Their’s is the story of Paula Ridgeway and Smithy, or Charles Rainier and Margaret Hanson, or closer yet, both of these stories together. She takes Harrison on a drive where they find Charles, the last line revealing that Charles had been with Paula all along.Random Harvest (1942)By 4 Star Film Fan on From 4 Star Films Charles wants to find out what happened to Paula and goes off searching while Harrison tells Mrs. They go there and Charles learns about the years he lost, from escaping the asylum all the way to slipping in Liverpool and remembering he was Rainier. Going back to Harrison's narration, he and Charles go to a music hall one night, where Charles starts to remember things, including the asylum he stayed at. Everything about Smithy, or Charles rather, going back home, meeting Kitty, and almost marrying her remains largely intact from the movie. The novel then switches to the third person as Charles recounts waking up in Liverpool after losing a few years of his life. ![]() Narrated by Harrison in the first person, he sits down one night with his employer, who tells him his story, or at least as much of it as he can remember. Paula never became Charles's secretary the story starts with Harrison, a character we only see at film's end, get hired as Charles's assistant and he is used as the audience surrogate the way Greer Garson is in the movie. You do not want to know what I'm capable of.įrom what I gather, the book's structure is very different. On a slightly unrelated note, if you're the monster who tore out of the last page of my Random Harvest copy and you're reading this, I will find you and I will make you do something highly horrific. I know, I cheated, so if I got something wrong in the following few paragraphs, please politely correct me in the comments and I'll make amendments right quick. So, anything I tell you about the novel, I found online. I have a copy from 1942 that I found at a library sale over a year ago, but the timing has been impossible. ![]() Let me just say this: I haven't read the book. ![]()
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