Reap The Wild Wind
I noticed that the building with the circular stairs which goes into the room where Zorina is, is from the same set as Reap the Wild Wind in the Paulette Goddard character's home.
Anyone else noticed or am imagining things?
I haven't seen Reap the Wild Wind in quite a while, but you're probably right. It was common practice at the studios to recycle sets and even costumes from one film to the other. Both films were made at Paramount, Louisiana Purchase in 1941, Reap in 1942. The famous staircase in Columbia'sHoliday from 1938 is seen in just about every one of its films needing a staircase in a ritzy house thereafter. Of course, some adjustments were made from film to film. Jeanette MacDonald's stage costume from 1936's San Francisco (the one that comes just below her knees) made at MGM can be seen being worn by Iris Adrian in the Marx Brother's 1940 film Go West, also MGM. MacDonald's headdress from a scene in MGM's 1937 production of Maytime is again worn by Ilona Massey in the studio's 1939 Balalaika. The German village in so many of Universal's Frankenstein films was originally built for 1930's All Quiet on the Western Front. These are but a few examples.
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