DESIRE ME

During the filming, it had a working title of “A Woman Of My Own”; Drama about the wife of a normandy villager who hears that he has died in a concentration camp and marries the bearer of the news, who turns out to be a psycotic who had left her husband for dead- but he did not die; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos, 17 Mile Drive at Pebble Beach, Malpaso Creek on the coast south of Carmel and elsewhere on the Monterey Peninsula and its environs; The film was plagued by delays and other problems, including retakes and re-editing and a last-minute replacement of Robert Montgomery with Hart as the male lead; Miss Garson was hospitalized after being swept off the rocks by an ocean wave at Malpaso Creek and rolled in 10 feet of water before being rescued by a Fisherman employed on the set, Monterey Purse Seine Skipper Vincent Sollecito; Mis Garson suffered bruises and a back sprain and was off to set for a week for more; MGM had wanted to put up a few buildings at the Point Lobos League, fearful of a repeat of an earlier filming episode at Point Lobos that damaged the fragile environment, tried to stop the filming althogether; MGM was allowed to film at Point Lobos but under the watchful eye of the Point Lobos League; The late 1930s to mid-’40s was a particularly favorite period for peninsula-made films, and the number during that time may have exceeded 50.

Greer Garson, Richard Hart, & Robert Mitchum

George Cukor and MGM Films.