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Remember the Day is a 1941 American drama film directed by Henry King and starring Claudette Colbert, John Payne and John Shepperd . The film was produced and released by 20th Century Fox. It was based on a play of the same title by Philo Higley and Philip Dunning. [2] Plot.
After marrying her second husband, screenwriter Frank Davis, she moved to California in 1935; with Davis she had two children. Slesinger was responsible for the screenplays, among others, of The Good Earth (1937) and, at the end of her life, she adapted A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1946) with Davis, which won them an Oscar nomination for Best ...
While working on a screenplay for Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth, Slesinger met her second husband Frank Davis; together, they wrote several more screenplays. Slesinger died of cancer at age thirty-nine and did not live to see the premiere of her final collaboration with Davis, film adaption of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn .
The film's screenplay was adapted by the husband-and-wife writing team of Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis, from the novel Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage by Isabel Scott Rorick. This novel would later be a source for the related 1948 radio series My Favorite Husband starring Lucille Ball , which itself would evolve into the television series I Love Lucy .
Tess Slesinger, Frank Davis, Allan Scott Featuring Claudette Colbert, John Payne, Shepperd Strudwick
Screenplay: Tess Slesinger, Frank Davis, Allan Scott Cinematography: George Barnes Editor: Barbara McLean Costume Design: Gwen Wakeling Art Direction: Richard Day, Ward B. Ihnen Music:Alfred Newman
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With her second husband, Frank Davis, Slesinger also wrote the screen adaptation of Betty Smith 's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), which was nominated for an Academy Award. Once in Hollywood, Slesinger's literary output slowed down considerably, but her activism continued.
