Help me identify this film from the John Lewis advert?

[BOFster]

It's driving me crazy

Here's a link to the John Lewis advert- take a look at the old movie showing on the television at 1 minute in, please.

Everybody thinks it's from It's A Wonderful Life, the embrace you can see at 3:21 in this clip:

But it really really isn't.

Look at this early publicity shot of Myrna Loy- what a fabulous hair-do

Ooh yes cd be. Definitely on the louche end . Therefore def not Celia Johnson.

Looks like Jodie Foster

Joan Bennett and Gregory Peck in The Macomber Affair? He even has the right shirt, look!

Jodie Foster channelling Myrna Loy

If your enjoying racking your brains over this you'll love a 24 hr 'art' installation ( more a triumph of interns and editing) telling the time through glimpses of clocks, watches and people in hundreds of different films all spliced together. Oddly compelling in a 'what's that film, I recognise that'

Ooh, QueenOfThorns, that's a possibility...

Having said that, if the movie is based on the short story "The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber" (something like that), then it's unlikely, because there's no love lost between the characters, so I can't see there being a big romantic kiss like that . No sign of the film on YouTube either .

I just did a google face search and came with wildly inappropriate images, John Pertwee as Dr Who amongst others!

Here's a still though. Hmm, I don't think it's Joan Bennett in the JL ad really. The make-up seems wrong.

Border, now you are just tormenting us

Hmmm. Also, not sure that the whole family would be sitting around watching that one, either!

BBC are saying its a wonderful life, so could be a mock up version as they didn't want to pay but then again its very short less than seven seconds.

Yeah.
And the eyebrows,
JB's are thicker at the inner side, a bit like tadpoles.

The eyebrows are wrong, too. OK, I admit defeat, but I don't think it's Myrna Loy either - the woman in the clip is a bit more wholesome looking somehow!

The BBC don't know shit . Honestly, there's no close-up shot of a kiss like that in the entire film, not one where you only see the woman's face from the neck up.

Apologies for the dreadful punctuation, sorry for any distress I may have caused....

Am now planning a massive B&W Sunday afternoon, triple bill. Would my 7 & 9 year old watch Harvey or is it more 'adult' then I remember?

We are stumped over here for the moment but I've got DH on the case and he is (a) very into movies and film trivia and stuff and (b) like a bloodhound so no doubt we will have an answer soon.

Seriously though the first thing he said was "a young Ronald Reagan".

I think they'd love it. I'd force them anyway

I reckon it's early Myrna, Hays code still in place, all feet firmly on the ground.

I really think this is a faked up version of IAWL. Here are the two most similar shots. Jimmy Stewart has a bald patch above his ears and quite a bad dye job

i'm still searching. Am Now obsessed!

It is (as has been said often) definitely not Donna Reed. So unless there is a close up of some one else in IAWL - it definitely isn't from that.

Isn't it annoying?

How many of us will lose sleep over this?

me

Yes, keep him to the grindstone, Hearts- I've been hours on this now, and I'm losing the will to live