The White Cliffs of Dover (1944 film)

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The White Cliffs of Dover
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Directed by	Clarence Brown
Produced by	Clarence Brown Sidney Franklin
Written by	Claudine West Jan Lustig George Froeschel
Starring	Irene Dunne Alan Marshal
Music by	Herbert Stothart
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	1944
Running time	126 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English / French / German
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The White Cliffs of Dover is a 1944 film made by Loew's and MGM. It was directed by Clarence Brown and produced by Clarence Brown and Sidney Franklin. The screenplay was by Claudine West, Jan Lustig and George Froeschel, based on the Alice Duer Miller poem entitled The White Cliffs with additional poetry by Robert Nathan.

[edit] Plot Summary

It tells the story of an American girl who travels abroad to England and falls in love with an English aristocrat. The girl marries the Englishman but their honeymoon is cut short on its first day as World War I breaks out. The husband goes to war in France, sees his bride only once more and then is killed in action near the end of the war. In the meantime the wife has his son, that she raises along with the father's mother. A scene in the movie approximating the early 30s shows adolescent German boys, part of an exchange program, visitng the English family's country estate. Insinuating they were part of early Nazi invasion plans, the movie has the boys let it slip in conversation that they are contemplating how the estate's large lawns would be ideal for troop gliders to land on.

Starring Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Frank Morgan, Van Johnson, C. Aubrey Smith, Gladys Cooper, Peter Lawford, Dame May Whitty, Elizabeth Taylor and Norma Varden, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography in Black and White.

[edit] External links

• The White Cliffs of Dover at the Internet Movie Database
• The White Cliffs of Dover at Allmovie

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