No Time for Love (1943) on Netflix
Katherine Grant, a magazine photographer, is assigned to shoot the sandhogs digging the Interborough Vehicular River Tunnel, a crew that believes a woman brings bad luck. Jim Ryan is one of them.
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Plot summary
Katherine Grant, the top photographer at Mirror magazine, is assigned to shoot the Interborough Vehicular River Tunnel project in New York City. In a hardhat and boots she goes underground, where the superstitious sandhogs, who hold that a woman in the tunnel brings bad luck, give her a cold welcome. Sneaking toward the drilling point for a better view, she distracts the crew, and an accident nearly kills Jim Ryan, the cocky sandhog they call Superman. Katherine pulls him clear. Ryan is taunted afterward for being saved by a woman, and when he returns the tripod she left behind, the two trade insults and a kiss. After Henry Fulton publishes a photograph of a tunnel brawl and Ryan loses his job, Katherine, unsettled by her feelings for him, hires him as her assistant.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about No Time for Love (1943)
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- Rita Hayworth was originally cast as photographer Katherine Grant and Oscar Levant as Roger, but both had to withdraw: Levant had other commitments, and production was delayed by eighteen months.
- Director Mitchell Leisen said he never asked the actors to do anything he wouldn't do, and on the first day in the tunnel he dove head-first into the mud. When Claudette Colbert emerged from her first take with a clean face, he slapped a handful of mud on it.
- The photographer Katherine Grant, played by Claudette Colbert, was based on Margaret Bourke-White, Life magazine's first female photojournalist, whose industrial photos appeared in Life's premiere issue.
- Wartime austerity limited what producers could spend on construction materials, so Mitchell Leisen reused a set from Claudette Colbert's earlier film The Palm Beach Story, still standing at Paramount, as Colbert's bedroom.
- The 25-foot tunnel set stood on Paramount's largest stage and was filled with mud; to avoid using real mud, designers tried several mixtures before settling on adobe and water, mixed in a cement mixer.
- Because wartime restrictions limited film stock, the cast rehearsed extensively during filming to avoid multiple takes, and many scenes in the finished film were first takes.
