Editing Anthony Adverse (section)

==Production==

[[File:Filming on set of Anthony Adverse, 1936.jpeg|thumb|260px|right|Mervyn LeRoy (seated right) directing March and De Havilland; behind LeRoy is cinematographer Tony Gaudio]]

Before casting Fredric March to costar with Olivia de Havilland, Warner Bros. considered [[Robert Donat]], [[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]], and [[George Brent]] for the title role.<ref>{{cite news|title=Walter Connolly Selected to Play Title Role in "Father Brown, Detective": Long Search for Correct Type Ends "Vampire of Prague" Lead Scheduled for Fay Webb|author=Scheuer, Philip K|work=Los Angeles Times |date=October 4, 1934|page=13}}</ref> The studio during preproduction also intended to cast [[Errol Flynn]] in support of March, but Flynn became so popular with moviegoers after his performance in ''[[Captain Blood (1935 film)|Captain Blood]]'' in 1935 that Warner Bros. assigned him to star instead in the 1936 film ''[[The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film)|The Charge of the Light Brigade]]''.<ref>"Chaplin's Big Business: Goldwyn's Leading Lady: A New Romantic Hero" Bain, Greville. ''The Times of India'' [New Delhi] March 7, 1936: 9.</ref>

[[Billy and Bobby Mauch|Billy Mauch]] plays the young Anthony Adverse in the earlier scenes. Warner Bros. discovered Mauch had a twin, and it put them both under contract. They were given a starring vehicle in ''[[The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film)|The Prince and the Pauper]]''.

Film editor [[Ralph Dawson]] provided some statistics: a shooting script of 250 pages; 1,098 camera set-ups, plus another 200 scenes prepared by special effects (including superimposed titles); 600,000+ feet of positive print film delivered to his cutting room, yielding a finished film of 12,250 feet.<ref>Dawson, Ralph. "How Anthony Adverse Was Cut." American Cinematographer 17:8 (August 1936), 345.</ref>