"BRYAN FOY IN DEAL WITH WARNER BROS.: Will Join Studio as Producer After Completing Eagle-Lion Films – Has 3-Year Pact". is the black and white footage of Seabiscuit's actual races". AMC critic Christopher Null agreed, writing, "The only actual reason to watch this film. The New York Times reviewer panned the film, stating, "the odds are that Seabiscuit's screen saga will prove an also-ran" and characterizing the subplot as "one of the season's dullest romances". It didn't cost much to make – about $700,000 – and it made a fortune." Critical The picture runs on television all the time. We had all the things in it that happened in Seabiscuit's life. In Europe it did the best business of any Warner picture that year. The film's title was changed from Always Sweethearts to The Story of Seabiscuit.Īccording to Butler "the picture caught on. "That was one of the nicest things that ever happened to him." "He was very sick there, but he got a big kick out of it", said Butler. īutler says a copy of the finished film was sent to Howard in Hawaii. The part of the film where Seabiscuit races War Admiral was shown in black and white because Butler could only source black and white news footage of that race. According to one report the Farm is "used pretty generally when Hollywood is trying to look like the blue grass country of Kentucky." It was also shot at Santa Anita, Burns Park and Burns Ranch in Woodland Hills. The bulk of the film was shot at Northridge Farms, a development established by Barbara Stanwyck and her then agent Zeppo Marx, then sold to a syndicate. The role of Seabiscuit was played by two of his children, Sea Sovereign and Sea Gamble. Temple was coached in an Irish accent by Arthur Shields. The same month Warners completed a deal with RKO worth a reported $25,000 for the 10,000 feet of color footage of Seabiscuit shot in 1940. In March 1949, Shirley Temple and Lon McAllister were signed to co star alongside Fitzgerald, and the title was Always Sweethearts. However filming was delayed and Brooks dropped out. In November the studio said Foote had written a script and that Barry Fitzgerald would play the lead alongside Geraldine Brooks, with William Jacobs to produce and filming to begin in December. Butler got John Traintor Foote, who wrote the horse riding film Kentucky, to write the script. Butler would direct in color from a scenario which included material from Howard. Howard, owner of the horse, to make The Story of Seabiscuit. In August 1947 Warner Bros announced they had done a deal with C. Butler approached Jack Warner, who was a horse owner, and pitched the project, saying Barry Fitzgerald would be ideal for the role of Tom Smith the trainer. A common friend, Phil Hall, told Butler that Howard was ill and would love to see a film made out of Seabiscuit. Wayne fell out and Randolph Scott and James Craig were considered for the film. Dick Powell was going to play the lead then John Wayne the title was changed to True to Form. The cast was to include Lucille Ball, Edna May Oliver and Leon Errol. This included footage of Seabiscuit's win at Santa Anita against Kayak after Seabiscuit had recovered from a ruptured suspensory ligament. In July 1940 David Butler was taking technicolor footage of Seabiscuit for a film called Blood Will Tell for RKO. co-starring Lon McCallister as jockey Ted Knowles.Barry Fitzgerald as trainer Sean O'Hara.The film is a fictionalized account of the career of the 1930s racehorse Seabiscuit (1933–1947), with a subplot involving the romance between the niece (Temple) of a horse trainer (Fitzgerald) and a jockey ( Lon McCallister). Though shot in Technicolor, the film incorporates actual black-and-white footage of Seabiscuit in races, including the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap and the 1938 match race against rival War Admiral, which is still considered by many to be the greatest horse race of all time. The screenplay was written by John Taintor Foote, uses the actual racehorse names, but changed the names of people involved. The Story of Seabiscuit is a 1949 American drama film directed by David Butler and starring Shirley Temple and Barry Fitzgerald in a semi-fictionalized account of racehorse Seabiscuit, the top money winner up to the 1940s.
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