A Walk in the Spring Rain

Senior Matinee. Presented free to seniors (62+) on Monday afternoons through October. Beginning this March, our senior matinee screenings are fully incorporated into our regular film calendar. Cinematic classics from the George Eastman House collection will be presented in 35mm, the way they were originally screened and were meant to be seen. This series is made possible in part by the Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation and the Monroe County Office for the Aging.

This fine romantic drama features Ingrid Bergman as Libby Meredith, a wealthy New York socialite who moves with her husband Roger (Fritz Weaver) to a cabin in rural Tennessee. They meet Will Cade (Anthony Quinn), a salt-of-the-earth local who charms the metropolitan Libby with his rustic sensibilities, and the two eventually enter into a romantic affair. A Walk in the Spring Rain is a melancholic film, and this is perhaps due to facts beyond the tragic character of its plot. This was the last of several films Bergman shot in America after an extended period living in Europe and working mainly on television and theatrical productions. Bergman and her husband Lars Schmidt had apparently been drifting apart for some time, and he remained in Europe while she was away. Shortly after returning from the shoot for A Walk in the Spring Rain, Bergman learned that Schmidt had fallen in love with another woman. Their marriage dissolved several years later. As it so often does in the tiny world of show business, life reverberates in art to blur the boundaries between the image on screen and the person in the world.