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afraid our relationship was never very cordial. Desmond
Dickson was the cameraman.... and he said to me one say, 'You're only allowed close ups in profile or if your face is distorted in anger – but we're getting around it!' Margaret had a great deal of power then and she certainly influenced which takes or prints could be used.
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quickly finds that she has no vocation for life in a nunnery. She finally marries Paul, but encounters strong opposition from Verite
Faimont, a neighbour who is very fond of Paul. The latter constantly plots against Lydia and is successful in temporarily breaking up the marriage, but can a miracle of restored vision be seen?
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We did a lot of swimming around in a tank in the studio at Denham. I didn't actually do the riding sequences in the south of France; they had a young boy with a wig on them doing them. Margaret
Lockwood wasn't very easy to work with. I know from other people she can be very charming and sweet but I'm
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Bennett claimed he "didn't even read" the script "until I was on my way back across the
Atlantic to direct it, and then I wanted to throw up. But I had to make it. Margaret Lockwood was my star – a very good actress. And I had a fifty-five day shooting schedule. Everything was right about it except
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Lydia Garth meets Paul de
Vandiere, a French nobleman, but their romance is plagued by Lydia's complaint of recurring spells of blurred vision. Paul leaves for France, promising to return and marry Lydia, but she loses her sight while he is gone. Given no hope of recovery, she enters a convent and
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Nonetheless, the film was acclaimed better critically than was originally thought trade papers called it a "notable box office attraction" in
British cinemas in 1949. Lockwood still managed to be voted the fifth most popular British star at the local box office for 1949.
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at a castle belonging to the de Sabran family. Location filming was completed without the role of
Lockwood's male lead being cast. Eventually French-Canadian actor Paul Dupuis was given the role.
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917:"The popular cash and culture in the postwar British cinema industry"
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454:Lockwood did not make another film for 18 months.
544:. Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from
435:filming took place on schedule and under budget.
989:"BFI Screenonline: Madness of the Heart (1949)"
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720:"ACTRESS SELLING HER HOME TO MAKE ENDS MEET"
636:"Hollywood Movie Men Change Over To England"
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845:"Margaret Aylward's BRITISH FILMS"
776:An Autobiography of British Cinema
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1107:Films directed by Charles Bennett
584:"Interview with Charles Bennett"
512:. 11 October 1950. p. 41.
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1127:1950s English-language films
1053:AFI Catalog of Feature Films
935:"British Stars Top the List"
817:"British Stars Top the List"
475:Matthew Coniam wrote in the
396:the story which was awful."
35:Original British quad poster
341:Pamela Stirling as Felicite
172:20 September 1950
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789:"CUSTOMS MEN MADE PROFIT"
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748:"FILM FACTS AND FANFARE"
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347:as Comtesse de Vandiere
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226:Madness of the Heart
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1062:at BFI Screenonline
692:"FEMININE INTEREST"
296:as Paul de Vandiere
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548:on 13 January 2009
508:"f Local Origin".
461:Critical reception
332:as Doctor Matthieu
326:as Mother Superior
284:as Joseph Rondolet
229:is a 1949 British
184:October 1950 (USA)
157:Universal Pictures
72:Richard Wainwright
64:by Flora Sandström
774:Brian McFarlane,
622:Los Angeles Times
290:as Verite Faimont
276:Margaret Lockwood
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1092:1950 films
1086:Categories
1078:at Variety
753:The Mirror
496:References
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367:Production
351:Marie Ault
300:Thora Hird
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176:1950-09-20
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485:Hitchcock
445:Blackpool
381:Madeleine
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878:The Mail
357:Sam Kydd
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489:Rebecca
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