Trevor Howard’s Swiss Holiday Sportswear in The Passionate Friends
Vitals Trevor Howard as Steven Stratton, romantic biology professor Switzerland, Summer 1948 Film: The Passionate Friends Release Date: January 26, 1949 Director: David Lean Costume Designer: Margaret Furse WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Back…
Trevor Howard as Steven Stratton, romantic biology professor
Switzerland, Summer 1948
Film:The Passionate Friends Release Date: January 26, 1949 Director: David Lean Costume Designer: Margaret Furse
WARNING! Spoilers ahead!
Background
Based on H.G. Wells' 1913 novel of the same name, The Passionate Friends was director David Lean's second film in four years to star Trevor Howard as a dignified and dashing gentleman who sweeps a bored housewife off her feet. In this case, the woman in question is Mary Justin (Ann Todd), pleasantly—if dispassionately—married to respected financial advisor Howard Justin (Claude Rains).
The Passionate Friends begins with Mary's arrival in Switzerland for a long overdue holiday, traveling with her husband's dutiful secretary Miss Layton (Betty Ann Davies) with Howard himself to follow later. (Though set in Switzerland, these sequences were actually filmed just across the French border at Lac d'Annecy in Haute-Savoie.)
As Mary drifts to sleep in her luxurious suite at the Hotel Splendide, she recalls her previous romances with biology professor Steven Stratton (Trevor Howard), whom she last saw nine years earlier in London when their reunion resulted in an extramarital affair that nearly destroyed her marriage to Howard. Little does she know, coincidence—or fate—has brought Steven not only to the same lakeside luxury hotel but indeed the adjoining room.
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