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• Paramount decided, after much disagreement, to keep Hemingway's original ending and fade out after the death of Catherine Barkley. This ending was kept for the European release, but a new ending in which Barkley lives was later added to the U.S. release.
  
  
• "A Farewell to Arms" originally ran 89 minutes, and was later cut to 78 minutes for a 1938 re-issue. The 89-minute version (unseen since the original theatrical run in 1932 and long thought to be lost) was released on DVD in 1999 by Image Entertainment, mastered from a nitrate print located in the David O. Selznick vaults.
  
  
• SPOILER: As now shown on U.S. television, the film ends as the novel does, with the death of Catherine.
  
  
• For the later re-release, the credits were entirely redone in the style of late 1930s and 1940s films. The film as shown on TCM and as released on DVD features the original 1932 film.
  
  

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