There was a book and it might have been made into a movie about a race
car driver in europe who fell in love with a woman in a turburculosis
sanitarium.  It may have been from the sixties or seventies. What is
the title?

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Request for Question Clarification by googlenut-ga on 19 Apr 2003 11:52 PDT

Hello graig-ga,

I found a late 1940s movie that fits your description.  

The woman is a pianist dying of tuberculosis. She checks into a
sanitarium where she falls in love with her doctor. After a fellow
patient she befriended dies, she leaves the sanitarium to have an
affair with a race car driver. They travel through Europe together
until she becomes weak and must return to the sanitarium.

Does this sound like the movie that you are looking for?

I have also found the name of the short story it was based on.

Googlenut

I am quite certain that the book you want is the 1961 novel "Heaven
Has No Favorites," by Erich Maria Remarque.

"Lillian is charming, beautiful . . . and slowly dying of consumption.
But she doesnt wish to end her days in a hospital in the Alps. She
wants to see Paris again, then Venice--to live frivolously for as long
as possible. She might die on the road, she might not, but before she
goes, she wants a chance at life.Clerfayt, a race-car driver, tempts
fate every time hes on the road. A man with no illusions about chance,
he is powerfully drawn to a woman who can look death in the eye and
laugh. Together, he and Lillian make an unusual pair, living only for
the moment, without regard for the future. It's a perfect
arrangement--until one of them begins to fall in love. . . ."

Half.com: "Heaven Has No Favorites"
http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=305327&domain_id=1856&meta_id=1&aid=1932276&pid=216178

"Heaven Has No Favorites" was originally published in German under the
title "Der Himmel kennt keine Günstlinge."

This book was made into the 1977 movie "Bobby Deerfield." Although in
the book the woman was dying of tuberculosis, in the movie the disease
is never named.

"Moody, introspective Bobby Deerfield (Al Pacino) is a Formula 1
motor-racing champion, whose colleague dies in a suspicious crash. He
starts his own investigation into the accident by visiting another
driver (Stephan Meldegg) in a Swiss clinic. It is here he meets and
falls for patient Lillian Morelli (Marthe Keller), who turns out to be
dying. The result is a slow-moving romantic drama, with the actors
given little chance to prove their worth."

Sky Movies: "Bobby Deerfield"
http://www.skymovies.com/skymovies/article/0,,11164791,00.html

"DER HIMMEL KENNT KEINE GÜNSTLINGE, 1961 - Heaven Has No Favorites -
Taivas ei tunne suosikkeja, suom. Markku Lahtela - film Bobby
Deerfield (1977), dir. by Sidney Pollack, screenplay by Alvin Sargent,
starring Al Pacino, Marthe Keller, Anny Duperey. - A motor racing
driver falls in love with a girl who has an incurable illness."

Pegasos: Erich Maria Remarque 
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/remarque.htm 

Search terms used:

"bobby deerfield"
"erich maria remarque"
"heaven has no favorites"

If this is not the correct book, please request clarification, and
I'll be glad to resume the search for you.

Best regards,
pinkfreud

I believe you are correct.  I read this about that time and it all
came back to me.  Thank you

A piece of information that you might find interesting is that another
similar movie was based on a short story by Erich Maria Remarque.

The movie was “The Other Love” starring Barbara Stanwyck and David
Niven.

MSN Entertainment
http://entertainment.msn.com/Movies/Movie.aspx?m=1697
“Barbara Stanwyck headlines this romantic tearjerker as a
free-spirited concert pianist dying of tuberculosis. She checks into a
posh Alpine sanitarium and there falls in love with her suave and
gentle doctor (David Niven). The poor physician has his hands full
trying to keep the energetic Stanwyck quiet so her body can rest. She
tries, but when the fellow patient she befriended dies, she becomes
afraid of her own death and flees to have a crazy affair with a race
car driver. Together they tear across Europe until she becomes weak
and must return to the sanitarium for the tragic conclusion.”


“The Other Love” was based on a short story by Erich Maria Remarque
titled “Beyond.”

Internet Movie Database
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Remarque,%20Erich%20Maria

Movies.com
http://movies.go.com/filmography/Credits?movie_id=9698 


Googlenut