Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) on Netflix

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)

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• Mai Zetterling was first announced for the lead in Saraband for Dead Lovers but asked to be excused "on account of a domestic incident", she was pregnant. Lilli Palmer was then cast, but she could not travel to England in time, so Joan Greenwood got the role.
• Michael Relph said the part of the countess was offered to Marlene Dietrich, but a miscommunication made Dietrich think she was being offered Sophia, so she turned it down; Flora Robson played the countess instead.
• The planned opening sequence was dropped: the actor playing Königsmarck says his character was introduced as penniless, and this was cut out because it involved Jewish moneylenders. Françoise Rosay had wanted to rehearse the sequence, but it went unused.
• Peter Bull recalled that he was made to shave his head so that, as King George I of England, he could frighten the daylights out of his wife, played by Joan Greenwood. He said the assurance that his hair would grow back quickly and stronger was absolute rubbish.
• The film was Ealing Studios' first color production, announced by the studio in 1946 with Basil Dearden set to direct.
• In August 1947, during production, Variety reported that the script was being rewritten to comply with the American production code.