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The Age of Innocence was originally scheduled for release in fall of 1992, but was held back for more than a year to give director Martin Scorsese more time to edit.
There are actually two other versions of the Edith Wharton story, The Age of Innocence (1924), a silent version, of course, and The Age of Innocence (1934), starring Irene Dunne.
Scorsese says he wanted to adapt Edith Wharton's drawing room to create a cinematic tribute to all of the movies that had inspired him and co-screenwriter Jay Cocks over the years, such as Detour (1945), Jules and Jim (1962), Two English Girls (1972), Vincente Minnelli's Madame Bovary (1949), and Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975).
To reconstruct the rooms authentically, production designer Dante Ferretti and 10 assistants spent three months culling hundreds of books, visiting antiques stores, and scouring museums for paintings to copy. Ferretti spent all of the allotted $5 million for production design in converting various structures into late 19th Century New York. In his hands, a Troy, N.Y., fraternity house becomes a majestic mansion and two rooms at the National Arts Club in Manhattan were magically transformed into a series of elaborately entwined drawing rooms.
Look closely in the snow-swept train station scene for director Martin Scorsese's most personal cinematic touch: a shot of his father, Charles, disembarking with the director's mother, Catherine. The director dedicated The Age of Innocence to his father at the beginning of the closing credits: "For My Father, Luciano Charles Scorsese." The elder Scorsese died August 23, 1993, at age 80 of complications from 1992 heart surgery. He passed away eight days before the Venice premiere of The Age of Innocence. A clothes presser for decades in New York's Little Italy, Mr. Scorsese served as a wardrobe consultant for The Age of Innocence.
Look fast for director Scorsese making a cameo as the photographer taking May's wedding picture.
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