For Whom The Bell Tolls - A must see movie based upon a novel by Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 American epic war film produced and directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper & Ingrid Bergman , Akim Tamiroff , Katina Paxinou and Joseph Calleia . The screenwriter Dudley Nichols based his script on the 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls written by Ernest Hemingway . The film is about an American Soldier volunteer, Robert Jordan ( Gary Cooper), who is fighting in the Spanish Civil War against the fascists . During his desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge to protect Republican forces, Jordan falls in love with a young woman guerrilla fighter (Ingrid Bergman).

For Whom the Bell Tolls was Swedish actor Ingrid Bergman's first Technicolor film. Ernest Hemingway's desire for Gary Cooper and Ingred Bergman for the leading roles was much publicized, but Paramount initially cast Vera Zorina with Cooper. After shooting footage with Zorina's hair cut short (truer to the novel's character—a shorn head—than Ingred Bergman's "look" in the film), she was replaced with Bergman. [ 5 ]

For Whom the Bell Tolls was nominated for nine Academy Awards , including Best Picture . The film claimed one win as Katina Paxinou won Best Supporting Actress. Victor Young 's soundtrack for the film was the first complete score from an American film to be issued on record.