Walter Pidgeon
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How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 American drama film directed by John Ford, adapted by Philip Dunne from the 1939 novel of the same title by Richard Llewellyn. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and a young Roddy McDowall.
How Green Was My Valley: Directed by John Ford. With Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp. At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
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- Drama, Family
- John Ford
- 1942-01-29
How Green Was My Valley (1941) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Huw Morgan (Roddy McDowall), the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social...
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- Walter Pidgeon
- John Ford
- Drama
Life is hard in a Welsh mining town and no less so for the Morgan family. Seen through the eyes of the family's youngest, Huw, we learn of the family's trials and tribulations. Family patriarch Gwilym and his older sons work in the mines, dangerous and unhealthy as it is.
How Green Was My Valley was the film that beat Citizen Kane for the Academy Award®, as much for its own qualities as Hollywood's resentment for Orson Welles's wunderkind status and his appropriation of details from the life of star Marion Davies, mistress of publisher William Randolph Hearst.
Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining family, as told through the eyes of its youngest child Huw (Roddy McDowall). Over the years, the family struggles to survive through unionization, strikes, and child abuse.
