David Niven’s Personal Experience

In the second half of the summer of 1940, he met 22-year-old Primola Rollo. Rollo, commonly known as Prime, became Mrs. David Niven two weeks later. They were married on September 16, 1940. After enduring the height of the London Blitz together, Niven married his beloved Primey. They had two sons and spent six happiest years together.

Out of love for Premi, Niven begins to develop a sense of purpose, and at the same time he begins to want to be a stay-at-home man. The playboy-like boy who loved to perform had become a soldier, and now he longed to be a husband and father. During the war, Niven's experience working in the propaganda department away from the war made him feel that his time and energy were wasted. This gave him a sense of frustration. But the birth of his son David Niven Jr. on December 15, 1942 made him overjoyed. During World War II, Niven was granted leave to star in war-related propaganda films. Niven had some British friends in Hollywood like Noel Coward, David's godfather Laurence Olivier, and Lex Harrison who had all come to England to serve at this time, and they would come to Niven's house at any time. Cottage visit. War is a discouraging time. During the war, Niven produced and starred in the war film The Way Forward. The film was a success in the UK but a failure in the US. Because the audience who had witnessed the defeat of Nazi Germany had been exhausted by the war, they wanted to put the war behind them.

After leaving the army, Niven returned to Hollywood, where he found himself popular. Godwin didn't fully forgive Niven for his eagerness to terminate his contract. Niven's career hit a low point after the war, but he still played one or two important roles every year.

Nonetheless, he happily returned to California with his wife and two sons. Tragedy struck just seven weeks after Niven returned to Hollywood. In May 1946, Niven's wife fell down the stairs at midnight and was dying. At the age of 28, she left David and her two sons, the youngest of whom was only 7 years old. Niven was devastated. His friend Noel Coward said something completely left Niven on the night Prime died. Niven wondered how he would be able to raise these two children on his own. He could hire a nanny, and California was a good place for kids to grow up. However, the handsome young man in Hollywood in the 1930s suddenly became a widower in Hollywood in the 1940s. Niven appeared in quite a few films that were not released, but he got paid. Niven got his biggest break in acting in 1947, when he and Cary Grant swapped roles in The Bishop's Wife. Niven became the star, and the film became a Christmas blockbuster. While in England, Niven also met a new lover, Hijotis Tersmeton, a 27-year-old model from Stockholm. He had become so unfamiliar with his two sons that when he spoke of them they were like two objects he had picked up on the road. Niven and his bride were married on January 14, 1948.

Niven felt frustrated with the mostly ordinary characters he played. In fact, he once told his sons that if anyone teased them about a role he played, to tell them, "Their dad was just a terrible actor, but he really loved it and that was all he could do." . ” For Niven, the time has come for him to take advantage of the emerging medium of television to create opportunities for himself.

In 1952, Niven became one of the investors of Four Star Television Production Company. This company specializes in producing TV series for four-star theaters. The shows aired on the network from 1952 to 1956.

The struggles and pressure with actors and producers took a toll on Niven's spirit and marriage. Niven never brought problems at work home, his son recalled.

Niven's most groundbreaking role came in 1956's "Around the World in 80 Days." He played the title character Phileas Fogg in the film. The role was originally intended for Cary Grant, but he passed on it.

Producer Michael Todd wanted a star, not a big star or a charismatic one. What he wanted was an actor who could hold up the film while allowing the story to develop on its own without putting too much of a personal stamp on it.

This person must be British, charming, and about forty years old. A friend of Todd recommended Niven to him.

This film won the 1956 Academy Award. Niven was also nominated for best actor, but lost out to Yul Brynner for The King and I. This film was an unprecedented epic work of its time. It is famous for having a large number of stars in one film, and has the largest number of film characters to date, with a total of 68,000.

It has scenes scattered around the world, the longest distance ever traveled to shoot a movie - five million kilometers, it also has the most movie sets - more than 2,000, and the most used The shooting backgrounds include London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and 6 Hollywood studios, with a total of more than 74,000 sets of costumes used. David Niven has become one of Hollywood's most dynamic leading actors. He has reached the pinnacle of his career. But Niven was worried about his friend Humphrey Bogart, who was ailing at the time, and whom he visited heartily every day after leaving the studio. Bogart was delighted by Niven's visit, and this situation lasted until Bogart's death in January 1957. Soon after, Michael Todd, the husband of producer Elizabeth Taylor, also died in a plane crash. By 1961, Niven's closest friends, Ronald Coleman, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, and Jerry Cooper, had all passed away.

Niven is reaching the pinnacle of his career. In 1958, he played a fake colonel arrested for immoral trespassing in "The Separating Table." The film won him the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Niven was so convinced that Oscars would only go to Americans that he was nearly speechless when the winner was announced. Unfortunately, none of his subsequent roles earned him an Oscar nomination, but there were still some unforgettable ones.

He then starred in the family comedy Don't Eat Daisies, based on the autobiography of Jane Cole, the wife of a Broadway theater critic.

He also appeared in the adventure film Cannons of Avalon, one of the films in which Niven appeared in a supporting role. The film depicts the experience of a group of elderly people participating in the war. In 1963, he played the British ambassador in "55 Days in Peking". Even in war movies, he still behaves like a British gentleman. Most of Niven's friends in Hollywood had died, and he began to seriously consider leaving Hollywood and returning to Europe. Niven's wife broke up with him in 1959, and it took a year of sweet talk before she returned. Niven is very sensitive about maintaining a happy home. His wife had adopted a Swedish girl and had a strong desire to raise her in Europe. Niven then decided to move to Switzerland.

But in the mid-1960s, Niven began a new career path. He found surprising success in a series of crime satires. These films include "Pink Panther," "Casual House" and "Dead Man Murder."

He also found success in inventive comedies such as "Prudence and the Pill" and "The Impossible Age." Because of the incongruity between his dapper persona and his fanatical '60s descendants, he continued to play roles in a plethora of comedies, murder mysteries, and war films throughout his later life.

He wrote two humorous autobiographies detailing his career. In fact, he tells a lot more about his career in Hollywood than he does about being a Hollywood actor.

In the early 1960s, his health deteriorated, but he still played some important roles. And time is passing.

In 1983, David Niven passed away during the filming of "The Curse of the Pink Cheetah." In some unfinished scenes, his character had to be voiced by someone else.

David Niven, an Oscar-winning actor, a charming, good-natured, pleasant and well-dressed British gentleman, he left us with a fascinating story. Amazing film career.