Tonight at 8:30 1942, with a screenplay by Claudine West, Hans Rameau and George Froeschel. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The film starred Norma Shearer and Melvyn Douglas, and also featured Florence Shirley, Lee Bowman and Lenore J. Coffee. Coward adapted "Still Life" for the screen as "Brief Encounter" in 1945. The film was remade in 1974 starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren. In May 2009, Houston Grand Opera premiered an opera in two acts based on "Brief Encounter", with music by André Previn from a libretto by John Caird. For a 1952 film "Meet Me Tonight", directed by Anthony Pelissier,
The Enchanted Cottage (1945 film) a reality that would make possible supposedly impossible romantic possibilities for himself and his married love interest, Gabriel. On her CBS variety show Carol Burnett performed a parody of the film entitled "The Enchanted Hovel", with herself in the Dorothy McGuire's role and Dick Van Dyke in the Robert Young role. The Enchanted Cottage (1945 film) The Enchanted Cottage is a 1945 romantic fantasy starring Robert Young, Dorothy McGuire, and Mildred Natwick. It was based on a play by Arthur Wing Pinero. "The Enchanted Cottage" was first adapted for the silent screen in 1924, with Richard Barthelmess and May McAvoy