Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field, Maria Ouspenskaya, C. Aubrey Smith

Mervyn Leroy's 1940 remake of Waterloo Bridge, based on the play by Robert E. Sherwood, stars Robert Taylor as Scotsman Roy Cronin, a middle-aged office in the British Army who reflects–on the eve of the Britain's entry into WWII–on lost love during the last Great War. Told in flashback, Roy's ill-fated romance casts Vivien Leigh as Myra Deauville who turns to prostitution when she believes her fiance has died in the war.

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