The title of Lenore Coffee's novel Weep No More was changed to Another Time, Another Place, when it was published in the United States (New York, 1956). Although the film's opening credits imply that the picture marked actor Sean Connery's debut, he had portrayed roles in several earlier films, including his first, the 1954 British release Lilacs in Spring (released in the U.S. as Let's Make Up.) Another Time, Another Place did mark, however, Connery's first featured role in an American film. Paramount press materials claim that producer Joseph Kaufman and star Lana Turner selected Connery for the role of "Mark Trevor" after auditioning over 300 English actors in London.
Another Time, Another Place was the initial production of Lanturn Productions, a film company owned by Turner. According to Motion Picture Daily, portions of the film were shot on location in London and the Cornwall region of England. Paramount press materials state that scenes set in "St. Giles" were shot in the Cornwall fishing village of Looe.
According to Hollywood Reporter news items, Another Time, Another Place originally was set to be released in September 1958, but Paramount chose to rush the recently completed film into theaters in May 1958 in an attempt to capitalize on the publicity surrounding the death of Turner's lover, gangster Johnny Stompanato. On Good Friday, April 4, 1958, Stompanato was found dead in Turner's Beverly Hills mansion, stabbed to death with a butcher knife. Turner's fourteen-year-old daughter, Cheryl Crane, was charged with the murder, and following one of the most highly publicized trials in U.S. history, the death was ruled a justifiable homicide. According to modern sources, gangster Mickey Cohen, angered at being forced to pay Stompanato's burial costs, gave twelve love letters written by Turner to Stompanato during the filming of Another Time, Another Place to an editor of Los Angeles Herald Express, and their publication during the trial made front-page news across the country.
Though it was rumoured in Hollywood for years that Turner had killed Stompanato herself, the actress's career suffered no ill effects from the scandal and her first picture following the murder, the 1959 Universal release Imitation of Life (see below), was one of the most critically and financially successful films of her career. In her autobiography and all later interviews, Cheryl Crane denied any involvement by her mother in the death, stating that she, herself, had accidentally stabbed Stompanato after hearing him threaten her mother during an argument, precisely as she had testified during her trial thirty years earlier.
Released in United States on Video October 25, 1990
Released in United States on Video September 25, 1990
Released in United States Spring May 1958
Remake of "Another Time, Another Place" (1958) directed by Lewis Allen.
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Released in United States Spring May 1958
Released in United States on Video September 25, 1990
Released in United States on Video October 25, 1990