Details

Release year: 1948

Storyline

A married woman's affair with a dashing young officer has tragic results.

Top credits

Directors

Julien Duvivier

Writers

Cast

Vivien Leigh — Anna Karenina
Ralph Richardson — Karenin
Kieron Moore — Count Vronsky
Hugh Dempster — Stepan Oblonsky

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Did you know

• Vivien Leigh's costumes were made in Paris by Barbara Karinska to Cecil Beaton's designs. She was in such pain wearing them that she even went to her doctor fearing she had broken her ribs. It was subsequently discovered that the dresser had been putting the corsets on upside down.

• Michael Redgrave was cast, but pulled out when he was offered Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) in Hollywood.

• This was one of three British films to be picketed at U.S. theaters by the anti-British group The Sons of Liberty. The other films were An Ideal Husband (1947) and Mine Own Executioner (1947). The group was founded by Professor John Amertenko, who was not allowed to stay in Great Britain, and generally tried to stop all things British (including cloth and Scotch whisky) from being sold in the U.S. The focus on films might have been spurred by Britain's quota on U.S. films; at the time no more than 35% of films shown in Britain could come from the U.S. The group's activities caused producer Sir Alexander Korda to stop sending films to the U.S. until the picketing stopped.