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3 unusual facts about Flesh and Fantasy


Flesh and Fantasy

The making of this film was inspired by the success of Duvivier's previous anthology film, the 1942 Tales of Manhattan.

On Mardi Gras night, a mysterious stranger (Edgar Barrier) gives her a white mask of beauty that she must return at midnight.

The second story is based on Oscar Wilde's short story Lord Arthur Savile's Crime.


Arthur Hilton

Shortly after, he emigrated to Hollywood where he worked on such films as the W. C. Fields classic comedies The Bank Dick (1940) and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941), and Julien Duvivier’s portmanteau film Flesh and Fantasy (1943).


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