Director: William Wyler

Writers: Charles MacArthur; Ben Hecht

From novel: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront�

Music: Alfred Newman

Producer: Samuel Goldwyn

Keywords: Romantic Drama

The gypsy boy Heathcliff is taken in by the Earnshaw family, where he and the daughter Catherine fall in love. But she cannot marry into his lower class; Heathcliff ventures to America and Catherine marries Edgar Linton. Upon his return as a wealthy man Heathcliff marries Edgar's sister Isabella, and proceeds to disrupt all of their lives. Told in flashback by the housekeeper Ellen Dean to a traveler, Lockwood, who believes he has seen a ghost. Story taken largely from the first half of Bront�'s novel. Won Oscar for Best Cinematography; received 7 additional nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay. Entered 2007 into the National Film Registry.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Leo G. Carroll	Actor	25-Oct-1892	16-Oct-1972	Waverly on The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Donald Crisp	Actor	27-Jul-1880	25-May-1974	Silent film actor, survived into talkies
Geraldine Fitzgerald	Actor	24-Nov-1913	17-Jul-2005	Wuthering Heights
Cecil Kellaway	Actor	22-Aug-1893	28-Feb-1973	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Miles Mander	Actor	14-May-1888	8-Feb-1946	The Three Musketeers
David Niven	Actor	1-Mar-1909	29-Jul-1983	Pencil-moustachioed actor
Merle Oberon	Actor	19-Feb-1911	23-Nov-1979	Wuthering Heights
Laurence Olivier	Actor	22-May-1907	11-Jul-1989	Shakespearean actor
Flora Robson	Actor	28-Mar-1902	7-Jul-1984	Fire Over England
Hugh Williams	Actor	6-Mar-1904	7-Dec-1969	One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

CAST

co-starring
Merle Oberon	...   Cathy
Laurence Olivier	...   Heathcliff
David Niven	...   Edgar
with
Flora Robson	...   Ellen
Donald Crisp	...   Dr. Kenneth
Geraldine Fitzgerald	...   Isabella
Hugh Williams	...   Hindley
Leo G. Carroll	...   Joseph
Miles Mander	...   Lockwood
Cecil Kellaway	...   Earnshaw
Cecil Humphreys	...   Judge Linton
Sarita Wooten	...   Cathy (as a child)
Rex Downing	...   Heathcliff (as a child)
Douglas Scott	...   Hindley (as a child)

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