Eternally Yours (film)

Eternally Yours is a 1939 American United Artists film produced and directed by Tay Garnett with Walter Wanger as executive producer, from a screenplay by C. Graham Baker and Gene Towne. It stars Loretta Young and David Niven. Composer Werner Janssen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Music.

One night, Tony becomes drunk in the company of a woman reporter and boasts he will jump out of an airplane at 15,000 feet 4,600m with his hands handcuffed behind his back. When she prints his claim, he first tries to get out of it with a fake cast on his arm, but when he sees the thousands of fans, he goes through with it, freeing himself in midair and parachuting safely to the ground. He promises Anita that he will not attempt the dangerous stunt again, but soon breaks his word and performs it repeatedly all over the world.Anita becomes weary of the constant travel and longs to settle down and start a family. Secretly, she sells her jewelry and has a house built in the Connecticut countryside. When it is completed, she shows Tony a picture of it, but his uninterested reaction stops her from telling him it is theirs. When he signs up for a twoyear, roundtheworld tour rather than take the vacation he had promised, she finally gives up. She leaves him and gets a divorce in Reno. Anitas grandfather, Bishop Peabody C. Aubrey Smith, breaks the news to the distraught Tony. ........

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