Claudette Colbert
Mrs. Anne Hilton
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Since You Went Away is a 1944 American epic drama film directed by John Cromwell for Selznick International Pictures and distributed by United Artists. It is an epic about the American home front during World War II that was adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the 1943 novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by ...
Since You Went Away: Directed by John Cromwell, Edward F. Cline, Tay Garnett, David O. Selznick. With Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple. With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- John Cromwell, Edward F. Cline, Tay Garnett
- 1944-07-20
A war drama based on a novel by Margaret Buell Wilder, starring Claudette Colbert and Jennifer Jones as a mother and daughter coping with their husband and father's absence. The film features letters, flashbacks and a love story amid the wartime hardships.
- John Cromwell
- Claudette Colbert
Since You Went Away (1944) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Synopsis. On a cold winter day on January 12, 1943, Anne Hilton returns to her suburban home after seeing her husband Tim off to war. Lonely, Anne bitterly questions her husband's decision to leave his family and his lucrative job as an advertising executive in order to serve his country.
When her husband leaves to fight in World War II, housewife Anne Hilton (Claudette Colbert) must struggle on alone to raise their two daughters, Jane (Jennifer Jones) and Bridget (Shirley Temple).
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- Drama
