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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.
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 .
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 ...
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
- Henry King, Henry Weinberger
- Claudette Colbert
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.
After working on the screenplay for Pearl Buck's The Good Earth (produced in 1937), Slesinger began a collaboration with Frank Davis which led to many successful scripts. She was able to combine a happy marriage to Davis and having two children with full professional activity until her untimely death from cancer at thirty-nine.
