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- Based on the novel Mrs. Parkington by Louis Bromfield (New York, 1943).
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Mrs. Parkington is a 1944 drama film. It tells the story of a woman's life, told via flashbacks, from boarding house maid to society matron. The movie was adapted by Polly James and Robert Thoeren from the novel by Louis Bromfield.
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The influence of Maytime and of Citizen Kane in the telling of the Parkington family story is obviously apparent. And the message about both inherited wealth and the damage that mere speculation without creating could have come from Wall Street.
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- Drama, Romance
- Tay Garnett
- 1944-11
Greer Garson delivered an unsinkable performance in Mrs. Parkington (1944), a sweeping romance that bore more than a passing resemblance to the life of mining queen Molly Brown (played by Debbie Reynolds in the 1964 musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Kathy Bates in the 1997 epic Titanic).
- Tay Garnett, Marvin Stuart
- Greer Garson
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington.
MRS. PARKINGTON, screen play by Robert Thoeren and Polly James; based on the novel by Louis Bromfield; directed by Tay Garnett; produced by Leon Gordon for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Mrs. Parkington ★★½ 1944. Overblown epic drama spanning six decades tells the story of the rise and fall of an American dynasty made on easy money. Garson plays the woman who goes from working as a maid in a boarding house to living a life of luxury when she marries a multimillionaire.
Mrs. Parkington is a 1944 drama film. It tells the story of a woman's life, told in flashbacks, from boarding house maid to society matron. The movie was adapted by Polly James and Robert Thoeren from the novel by Louis Bromfield. It was directed by Tay Garnett and starred Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon appearing together as husband and wife ...
