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She (1935)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1935
Running Times: 96 mins
Format: black and white (tinted) 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures Inc
Producer: Merian C. Cooper
Associate Producer: Shirley C. Burden
SCRIPT
Adaptation: Ruth Rose
Dialogue: Ruth Rose
Additional Dialogue: Dudley Nichols
Novel: H. Rider Haggard
DIRECTION
Directors: Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel
1st Assistant Director: Harry D'Arcy (uncredited)
2nd Assistant Director: Charles Kerr (uncredited)
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: J. Roy Hunt
Camera Operator: Eddie Pyle
Assistant Camera: Charles Burke, James Daly
Gaffer: Leo Green
Head Grip: Marvin Woods
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Ted Cheesman
Assistant Film Editor: Ralph Spotts
MUSIC
Music: Max Steiner
Harp Solos: Edward B. Powell
Orchestrators: Maurice De Packh, Bernhard Kaun
Music Recording: P.J. Faulkner Jr
SOUND
Sound Recording: John L. Cass
Sound Effects: Walter Elliott, Lee Steiner (uncredited)
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Carl Axcelle (uncredited), Robert J. Schiffer (uncredited)
Hair: Hollis Barnes (uncredited)
Costume Designers: Aline Bernstein, Harold Miles
Wardrobe: Eleanor Fieldhouse, Sandy
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Vernon L. Walker
Matte Photography: Guy Newhard
Optical Effects: Linwood G. Dunn
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Van Nest Polglase
Associate Art Director: Alfred Herman
Mosaic Throne Design: Alex Hall
Set Decorator: Thomas Little
Set Dresser: Thomas Little (uncredited)
Property Master: Charles Sayers (uncredited)
Production Illustrators: Dan Sayre Groesback, Roland Gross, Dennis Holden,
Lansing C. Holden, Stanley Johnson, Mario Larrinaga, Harold Miles, Charles
Ohmann, George Russell, R. Doulton Stott, Vsevolod Ulianoff (all uncredited)
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Gloria Truebe
Technical Advisor: Dr Luido Gorgastin
Researcher: Elizabeth McGaffey
Assistant to Cooper: Zoe Porter
Nurse: Esther Coleman
Dance Director: Benjamin Zemach
CAST
Helen Gahagan (Ayesha (She))
Randolph Scott (Leo Vincey)
Helen Mack (Tanya Dugmore)
Nigel Bruce (Horace Holly)
Julius Adler (high priest - uncredited)
Ray Corrigan, Jerry Frank (guards - uncredited)
Arnold Gray, Bill Wolfe (priests - uncredited)
Lumsden Hare (Dugmore - uncredited)
Samuel S. Hinds (John Vincey - uncredited)
Noble Johnson (Amahaggar chief - uncredited)
Jim Thorpe (Captain of the Guard - uncredited)
Gustav von Seyffertitz (Billali - uncredited)
SUMMARY
Leo Vincey learns from his dying uncle about a lost
world in Siberia. He puts together an expedition and sets off in search
of the fabled land and its magical fire that bestows immortality on
anyone who enters it. They eventually reach the lost city of Kor and
meet its immortal queen, Ayesha, She Who Must Be Obeyed who believes
that Vincey is her long-lost lover John Vincey, Leo's ancestor who discovered
Kor 500 years before.
CAPSULE REVIEW
On a technical and creative level, She can be seen
as a textbook case on how to produce a fantasy adventure motion picture,
if the resources are available. But despite its undoubted technical
virtuosity and stunning appearance, thanks to serious shortcomings in
most of the other areas of its production, this remains a deeply flawed
work, and therefore a minor addition to genre cinema. (Full
Review)
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures Inc
Video Distributors: The Fang; Cape Copy Center; Kino Video
<AWARDS
1936
Academy Awards, USA
Best Dance Direction (Benjamin Zemach - for Hall of Kings) - nominated
TIMELINE
1935
July
12: USA - theatrical release
1949
November
14: Denmark - theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
From H. Rider Haggard's weird, wondrous story of
the beautiful woman who bathed in flame and lived 500 years... at last
to find her first love at this very hour!
LINKS
REMAKE OF
She (1908)
She (1911)
She (1916)
She (1917)
She (1925)
REMAKES
She (1965)
She (2001)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
TV Times 16 - 22 September 1989 pp.23;
31
review; credits
Video Watchdog 33 p.6
review
KEYWORDS
the arctic, africa, avalanches, books into film, cannibalism, expeditions,
explorers, fire, glaciers, gold, human sacrifice, immortality, jealousy,
jungles, legends, letters, lost worlds, queens, radiation sickness,
reincarnation, rituals, royalty, scientists, siberia, temples, uncles
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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