Today We Live

Today We Live
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHoward Hawks
Written byWilliam Faulkner (dialogue)
Screenplay by
Based onTurn About
Saturday Evening Post 1932
by William Faulkner
Produced byHoward Hawks
Starring
CinematographyOliver T. Marsh
Elmer Dyer (aerial photography)
Edited byEdward Curtiss
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • April 21, 1933 (1933-04-21) (US)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$663,000[1]
Box office$1,035,000[1]

Today We Live is a 1933 American pre-Code romance drama film produced and directed by Howard Hawks and starring Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young and Franchot Tone.[2]

Based on the story "Turnabout" by William Faulkner, which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post on March 5, 1932, the film is about two officers during World War I, who compete for the same beautiful young woman. Faulkner provided dialogue for the film, making it the only film version of his work that Faulkner co-wrote.[3]

Joan Crawford's character was added to the film to include a love interest. She met her future husband Franchot Tone on the set of the film. They married two years later.[4]

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ "Today We Live (1933)." The New York Times; retrieved September 18, 2012.
  3. ^ Phillips 2001, pp. 13–16.
  4. ^ Quirk and Schoell 2002, p. 69.