Lust for Life (film) in the US and Canada and $1,100,000 elsewhere resulting in a loss of $2,072,000. MGM produced a short film "Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light", narrated by Dore Schary and showing the European locations used for the filming, to promote "Lust for Life". In the film, a 75-year-old woman from Auvers-sur-Oise (not Jeanne Calment, who lived in Arles several hundred kilometers to the south), who claims to have known Van Gogh when she was a young girl, meets star Kirk Douglas, and comments on how much he looks like the painter. This short promotional film is shown on Turner Classic Movies
Wil van Gogh Wil van Gogh Wilhelmina Jacoba "Wil" van Gogh (; 16 March 1862 – 17 May 1941) was a nurse and early feminist. She is best known as the youngest sister of the artist Vincent van Gogh and the art dealer Theo van Gogh. Wilhelmina Jacoba van Gogh was born on 16 March 1862 in Zundert in the Netherlands, daughter of Theodorus van Gogh and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. She had three brothers Vincent, Theo, and Cor, and two sisters Elisabeth and Anna. During the first part of her life Wil van Gogh served her family and others, nursing the sick. After