Sam Wood, who had directed such hits as the 1935 Marx Brothers’ classic “A Night at the Opera,” 1939’s “Goodbye, Mr. But he left the film for another project that eventually wouldn’t be made. The New York Times wrote: “According to contract, Paramount paid Hemingway $100,000 for the property, agreeing to an additional 10 cents a copy for each volume sold up to 500,000. In 1940, Paramount shelled out a staggering $150,000 for film rights. Hemingway witnessed the Spanish Civil War firsthand as a reporter for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Paramount spared no expense bringing Ernest Hemingway’s 1940 novel set during the Spanish Civil War about Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer with a Republican guerrilla unit tasked with blowing up an important bridge. The second highest grossing film of the year was “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” which opened on July 14, 1943, earning $6.3 million-nearly $3 million more than the beloved Oscar-winner “Casablanca,” which placed No 6 that year. The war even dominated cinema-seven of the top ten films of the year were war-themed. And there was little escape from the horrors of the global conflict.
Eight decades ago, the United States was in the second full year of World War II.
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