Waterloo Bridge (1931) on Netflix
Myra Deauville, an American chorus girl in wartime London, gets by on men at Waterloo Bridge. A Zeppelin raid brings her together with Roy Cronin, a naive American in the Canadian army.
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Plot summary
Out of work in London during World War I, Myra Deauville makes her living from the men she meets on Waterloo Bridge, the route soldiers on leave use to enter the city. A Zeppelin air raid interrupts one such evening, and she meets Roy Cronin, a naive American serving with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. She does not solicit him, and he stays unaware of how she lives. When the bombing stops, Roy walks her home and stays for dinner. She calls herself an unemployed chorus girl and refuses his offer to pay her overdue rent. The next morning he comes back, and Myra's landlady Mrs. Hobley lets him into her room. He also meets Myra's neighbor Kitty, who speaks up for Myra and says she needs care and affection. Myra scolds Kitty for interfering.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Waterloo Bridge (1931)
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- James Whale brought Waterloo Bridge in $50,000 under budget, and producer Carl Laemmle Jr. was so impressed that he let the director pick any property the studio had in development. Whale chose Frankenstein.
- Rose Hobart, under contract to Universal, was assigned the role of Myra Deauville in Waterloo Bridge but declined it after learning the studio did not intend to renew her contract. She was replaced by Columbia contract player Mae Clarke.
- Playwright Robert E. Sherwood based Waterloo Bridge on his own wartime experiences, including a chance meeting during a 1918 air raid with an American chorus girl who had turned to streetwalking.
- Censor boards in Chicago, New York City and Pennsylvania insisted on extensive cuts to Waterloo Bridge, and once the Production Code was enforced in July 1934 the original version could no longer be re-released at all.
- Whale shut down production on Waterloo Bridge for three days to work with inexperienced co-star Kent Douglass, later known as Douglass Montgomery, who needed a great deal of attention.
- Waterloo Bridge sat in studio vaults for 35 years before being rediscovered in 1975, and a joint ownership agreement between MGM and Universal then kept it from being seen for another two decades.
