Mrs. Miniver
US (1942): Drama
A movie doesn't win seven Oscars® for nothing. A glowing Greer Garson commands the screen as Mrs. Kay Miniver, a middle-class British housewife whose strength holds her family together as World War II literally hits their home. Walter Pidgeon, as her architect husband Clem, seems to be the prototype for future TV dads in this affecting portrait of love -- familial and romantic -- during war. But the relationship between Mrs. Miniver's college-age son (Richard Ney) and the upper-crust Carol (Teresa Wright) is filled with inherent drama -- as the war speeds up their young love, it also has the potential to doom it. The William Wyler film is filled with colorful characters, snappy dialogue, and sensational plot twists. Although you spend much of the movie dreading that one of the Minivers will become a casualty of war, when it finally happens, it's not what you anticipated. Exactly what you'd expect from a legendary film that lives up to its billing. Supporting cast includes Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Henry Travers, Henry Wilcoxon, Christopher Severn and Clare Sandars (as the littlest Minivers) and Helmut Dantine (as a downed German flier). In 1943, Garson married Richard Ney, eleven years her junior, who plays her son Vin in Mrs. Miniver; the marriage lasted until 1947.(Amazon.com)
12 nominations, 6 Awards
· Best Picture 1942: Sidney Franklin, producer (MGM)
· Best Actress 1942: Greer Garson
· Best Supporting Actress 1942: Teresa Wright
· Best Directing 1942: William Wyler
· Writing (Best Screenplay) 1942: George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West & Arthur Wimperis
· Best Cinematography (Black and White) 1942: Joseph Ruttenberg
· Actor 1942: Walter Pidgeon
· Supporting Actor 1942: Henry Travers
· Supporting Actress 1942: Dame May Whitty
· Film Editing 1942: Harold F. Kress
· Sound Recording 1942: Douglas Shearer
· Special Effects 1942: A. Arnold Gillespie & Warren Newcombe - Photographic, Douglas Shearer - Sound