Academy Awards 1942 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Arthur Wimperis, Claudine West, George Froeschel & James Hilton
Academy Awards 1942 -
Best Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg
Academy Awards 1942 -
Best Director: William Wyler
Academy Awards 1942 -
Best Picture
Academy Awards 1942 -
Best Supporting Actress: Teresa Wright
Entertainment Reviews:
Premiere - 05/01/2004
"Moviegoers immediately sympathized with the story of the Minivers' struggle during the Blitz....Audiences were also entranced by Garson's flawless beauty."
Description by OLDIES.com:
Kay Miniver doesn't fly a Spitfire in dogfights over London or ply the North Sea in a battleship, but she's doing her all for wartime England. And she does is so well that Winston Churchill would say Mrs. Miniver was more vital to the nation than a fleet of destroyers. Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture, this memorable spirit-lifter about an idealized England that tends its prize-winning roses while confronting the terror of war struck a patriotic chord with audiences and became 1942's #1 box-office hit. Greer Garson gives a formidable Oscar-winning title-role performance comforting children in a bomb shelter, capturing an enemy parachutist and delivering an inspirational portrait of stiff-upper-lip British resolve. When Hitler did his worst, Mrs. Miniver did her best.
Product Description:
A moving drama about a middle-class English family learning to cope with war, told in a series of dramatic vignettes. The family, headed by the lovely and gracious matriarch, endures the departure of the father for the beaches at Dunkirk, the discovery of a wounded Nazi pilot, the death of the daughter-in-law in an air raid, and the entry of the son into the Royal Air Force. The scenes culminate in a morale-boosting final speech that President Franklin Roosevelt ordered printed and air-dropped over war-torn Europe. Condensed from the novel by Jan Struther. Academy Award Nominations: 12, including Best Actor--Walter Pidgeon. Academy Awards: 6, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress--Greer Garson, Best (Adapted) Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress--Teresa Wright.
Plot Synopsis:
Melodrama about a stalwart British matriarch during World War II, trying to cope with her family's involvement in the fighting, and the effect of the war on everyday life.
Plot Keywords:
Classic |
Essential Cinema |
Family Interaction |
Recommended |
Tear Jerker |
War |
World War II
Film Collectors & Archivists: Alpha Video is actively looking for rare and
unusual pre-1943 motion pictures, in good condition, from Monogram, PRC,
Tiffany, Chesterfield, and other independent studios for release on DVD. We
are also interested in TV shows from the early 1950s. Share your passion
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