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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday is a 1943 American comedy drama film produced and directed by Bruce Manning and starring Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, and Barry Fitzgerald. [2] Based on a story by Sonya Levien , the film is about a young idealistic missionary who smuggles a group of Chinese war orphans into the United States posing as the wife of a ...
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday: Directed by Bruce Manning, Jean Renoir. With Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Treacher. A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
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- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Bruce Manning, Jean Renoir
- 1943-02-19
Synopsis. Young schoolteacher Ruth Kirke is transporting a group of war orphans from South China to San Francisco when their cargo ship is torpedoed and sunk in the mid-Pacific. Along with sailor Timothy Blake, they are the only known survivors of the enemy attack.
- Bruce Manning, Jean Renoir, Joseph Mcdonough
- Deanna Durbin
Frank Skinner and Hans J. Salter were nominated for an Oscar for Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. The Amazing Mrs. Holliday is a 1943 American comedy drama film produced and directed by Bruce Manning and starring Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, and Barry Fitzgerald.
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday. A ship's steward (Barry Fitzgerald) has a missionary (Deanna Durbin) pose as his tycoon boss's wife to help her smuggle orphans out of China.
- Comedy, Drama
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday is an uneven, frustrating WWII comedy-drama, worth seeing for Deanna Durbin's sensitive, beguiling performance, the best of her adult career. She plays a schoolteacher and missionary's daughter who comes to America with a gaggle of war orphans and has to pose as the widow of a wealthy sea captain to keep them together.
- Bruce Manning
- Universal Pictures
Director. Sonya Levien. Story. Leo Townsend. Writer. Frank Ryan. Writer. Boris Ingster. Writer. Hans Jacoby. Writer. A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
