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It tells how Mrs. Miniver catches a German flier who has been brought down and how she reads Toby to sleep with "Alice in Wonderland" in an Anderson shelter on a bomb-filled night, "remembering her own child life and the happy Summer days." It tells of the Beldon flower show and of how Mr. Ballard wins the prize.
Aug 23, 2012 · Mrs. Miniver is more than a picture— It’s dramatic. It’s tender. It’s human. It’s real. T he British class system that had begun to disintegrate even before its almost—almost—complete dissolution (it still persists) with World War I, and which was so horribly exposed in the discriminatory survival rates in the sinking of the “Titanic,” is a strong sub-plot in William Wyler ...
Mrs. Miniver was the culmination of Franklin's efforts. The sentimental yet gripping story of "an average middle-class English family" (as the opening titles describe them) in the midst of total war , won six Academy Awards and was the box-office hit of 1942 on both sides of the Atlantic.
Mrs. Miniver Comes Home. IT was lovely, thought Mrs. Miniver, nodding good-bye to the flower-woman and carrying her big sheaf of chrysanthemums down the street with a kind of ceremonious joy, as though it were a cornucopia; it was lovely, this settling down again, this tidying away of the summer into its box, this taking up of the thread of one's life where the holidays (irrelevant interlude ...
Mrs. Miniver Jump to Academy Awards, USA (12) National Board of Review, USA (3) National Film Preservation Board, USA (1) New York Film Critics Circle Awards (1) Online Film & Television Association (1)
Other articles where Mrs. Miniver is discussed: William Wyler: Films of the 1940s of William Wyler: Wyler’s next film, Mrs. Miniver (1942), won six Academy Awards and was nominated for another six, but its greatest legacy was the empathy for the British and the support for the Allied war effort it engendered among American audiences at a time when the United States had only…
3.92. 1,743 ratings269 reviews. As a best-selling book and an Academy Award-winning movie. Mrs. Miniver's adventures have charmed millions. This edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the book's orginal publication in the U.S., features a new introduction by Greer Garson, who won the Academy Award as best actress for her role as Mrs ...
