Il villino incantato

Titolo originale: The Enchanted Cottage

1945
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1h 31min

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Robert Young and Dorothy McGuire in Il villino incantato (1945)

A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.

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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA plain maid and a wounded war veteran are transformed by their love for each other while residing in an enchanted honeymoon cottage.A plain maid and a wounded war veteran are transformed by their love for each other while residing in an enchanted honeymoon cottage.A plain maid and a wounded war veteran are transformed by their love for each other while residing in an enchanted honeymoon cottage.

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- 1 candidatura in totale

Soldier at dance
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Virginia Belmont

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Barbara Blair

Mildred
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Patti Brill

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Martha Holliday

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Carl Kent

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Nancy Marlow

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Sherman Sanders

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- John Cromwell
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In 1973, it was announced that a remake would be made. According to Robert Young, the setting would be updated and Dorothy McGuire and he would be playing the parts of the housekeeper and blind pianist originally played by Mildred Natwick and Herbert Marshall. The idea fell through after McGuire watched a screening of the original at Young's invitation at the actor's home. She said that the film belonged to another period and that she did not want to go backward.

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As Mr. Bradford is leading Major Hillgrove to the beach, there is a dog swimming in the ocean as Laura chats with Danny. The dog brings the stick to be thrown back into the water, and he is completely dry.

Citazioni
Laura Pennington: Oliver, we've never written our names - somehow I think they'd want us to.

Curiosità sui crediti
In the opening credits, the principle actors are seen with their names superimposed over the shots. Dorothy McGuire is seen in her character's beautiful and then unattractive state; Robert Young is seen only in his normal, attractive state. This is interesting in that the story deals with both characters, not one, falling in love and seeing only one another's beauty, despite both of their unfortunate appearances.

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Also shown in computer colorized version.

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Featured in TCM Guest Programmer: Whoopi Goldberg (2007)

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8/10

Sweet People, Profound Message

This was a nice, short fairy tale-type romance with truly nice people in the leads: Robert Young and Dorothy McGuire. One of the best features of this film, to me, was listening to McGuire's soft, sweet feminine voice. It certainly went with the nice, compassionate character she played in this movie ("Laura Pennington").

Robert Young, as "Oliver Bradford," also is very good in here and Herbert Marshall is outstanding as the blind neighbor, "Major John Hillgrove." The annoying character was played by Spring Byington but her "Violet Price" role was small.

This is the story of a plain woman and a battle-scarred World War II pilot who meet at this cottage, fall in love, see each other as beautiful thinking that some mystical power at the cottage and transformed their faces, but in the end find out they haven't changed at all. They find out that love changed they way they looked at each other. Sounds corny, but a lot of profound truth to it.

I read one famous critic write that this film could have been better. Well, I don't doubt it, but you could say that about most movies. I have no complaints with it. I do have a question: it's listed at 91 minutes but my tape only plays for 79. Did I have 12 minutes cut out of the story on my VHS?