![]() ![]() After a three-month delay, she was pulled from the lead role, Stahl was assigned to another project and the studio found itself $1 million in the hole. The project went off the rails immediately when star Peggy Cummins collapsed on the set. William Perlberg was assigned to produce the film with a budget of $3 million and John M. Ultimately the team of Philip Dunne and Ring Lardner Jr. Writing the screenplay proved to be torturous with Winsor and then Jerome Cady failing to adapt the massive novel in a way that would gain approval by the National League of Decency. Zanuck moved quickly to secure the film rights paying an astounding $200,000 to Winsor. ![]() ![]() Kathleen Winsor’s novel Forever Amber proved to be a sensational success with the public, one fully noticed by the major movie studios. ![]()
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