Green Mansions (film)
| Green Mansions | |
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Theatrical release lobby card by Joseph Smith | |
| Directed by | Mel Ferrer |
| Screenplay by | Dorothy Kingsley |
| Based on | Green Mansions 1904 novel by William Henry Hudson |
| Produced by | Edmund Grainger |
| Starring | Audrey Hepburn Anthony Perkins |
| Cinematography | Joseph Ruttenberg |
| Edited by | Ferris Webster |
| Music by | Heitor Villa-Lobos Bronislau Kaper |
| Color process | Metrocolor |
Production company | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,288,000 |
| Box office | $2,390,000 |
Green Mansions is a 1959 American adventure-romance film directed by Mel Ferrer. It is based upon the 1904 novel Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson. The film starred Audrey Hepburn (who at the time was married to Ferrer) as Rima, a jungle girl who falls in love with a Venezuelan traveller played by Anthony Perkins. Also appearing in the film were Lee J. Cobb, Sessue Hayakawa and Henry Silva. The score was by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Bronislau Kaper.
The film was intended to be the first of several projects directed by Ferrer and starring his wife, but ultimately this was the only one released. It was one of the few critical and box office failures of Hepburn's career. Vincente Minnelli had been slated to direct the film, but delays in the project led Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to choose Ferrer to direct.