As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of the upper-class British home front during World War II sometimes seems over-calculated and contrived when seen today. In particular, Greer Garson’s Oscar-winning performance in the title role often comes off as artificial, especially when she nobly tends her rose garden while her stalwart husband (Walter Pidgeon) participates in the evacuation at Dunkirk. However, even if the film has lost a good portion of its ability to move and inspire audiences, it is easy to see why it was so popular in 1942-and why Winston Churchill was moved to comment that its propaganda value was worth a dozen battleships. Everyone in the audience-even English audiences, closer to the events depicted in the film than American filmgoers-liked to believe that he or she was capable of behaving with as much grace under pressure as the Miniver family. The film’s setpieces-the Minivers huddling in their bomb shelter during a Luftwaffe attack, Mrs. Miniver confronting a downed Nazi paratrooper in her kitchen, an annual flower show being staged despite the exigencies of bombing raids, cleric Henry Wilcoxon’s climactic call to arms from the pulpit of his ruined church-are masterfully staged and acted, allowing one to ever so briefly forget that this is, after all, slick propagandizing. In addition to Best Picture and Best Actress, Mrs. Miniver garnered Oscars for best supporting actress (Teresa Wright), best director (William Wyler), best script (Arthur Wimperis, George Froschel, James Hilton, Claudine West), best cinematography (Joseph Ruttenberg) and best producer (Sidney Franklin). Sidebar: Richard Ney, who plays Greer Garson’s son, later married the actress-and still later became a successful Wall Street financier. Mrs. Miniver was followed by a 1951 sequel, The Miniver Story, but without the wartime setting the bloom was off the rose., Best Picture winner is a portrait of how an upper-class British family (headed by Best Actress Greer Garson), living in “one quiet corner of England,” deal with the trials and tribulations of World War II., A British family struggles to survive the first days of World War II in Mrs Miniver (1942), directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon and Teresa Wright. With Chinese subtitles., Multi-Oscar-winning look at middle-class life in a small English village during World War II, centring on a housewife trying to keep her chin up while her husband and son are fighting for the Allies., The Minivers, an English “middle-class” family experience life in the first months of World War II. While dodging bombs the Miniver’s son courts Lady Beldon’s granddaughter. A rose is named after Mrs. Miniver and entered in the competition against Lady Beldon’s rose., Multi-Oscar-winning tribute to British war-time pluck, with Garson suitably stoic as the devoted wife braving the bombs as she waits for her husband and son to return.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “Mrs. Miniver ” ?
A: The main cast includes Greer Garson,Walter Pidgeon,Teresa Wright,Richard Ney,May Whitty,Henry Travers,Reginald Owen,Henry Wilcoxon,Clare Sandars,Christopher Severn,Brenda Forbes,Rhys Williams,Marie de Becker,Helmut Dantine,Louise M. Bates,Mary Field,Tom Conway,Paul Scardon,Ben Webster,Aubrey Mather,Forrester Harvey,John Abbott,Connie Leon,Billy Bevan,Florence Wix,Bobby Hale,Alice Monk,Ottola Nesmith,Douglas Gordon,Gerald Oliver Smith,Alec Craig,Clara Reid,Harry Allen,Leslie Vincent,John Burton,Leonard Carey,Eric Lonsdale,Guy Bellis,Charles Irwin,Ian Wolfe,David Thursby,Charles Bennett,Arthur Wimperis,David Clyde,St. Luke’s Choristers,Colin Campbell,Herbert Clifton,Leslie Francis,David Dunbar,Art Berry Sr.,Sidney D’Albrook,Gene Byram,Virginia Bassett,Aileen Carlyle,Irene Denny,Herbert Evans,Eula Morgan,Vernon Steele,Vivie Steele,Marek Windheim,Tudor Williams,Kitty Watson,Hugh Greenwood,Sybil Bacon,Flo Benson,Harold Howard,Billy Engle,Louise Bates,Edward Cooper,Walter Byron,Ted Billings,Dan Maxwell,Frank Atkinson,Henry King,Gil Perkins,John Power,Thomas Louden,Peter Lawford,Stanley Mann,Leslie Sketchley,Emerson Fisher-Smith,Frank Baker,Colin Kenny,Edwin B. Willis,Joseph Ruttenberg,Cedric Gibbons,Harold F. Kress,Warren Newcombe,James Hilton,Miles Mander,Robert Kalloch,Claudine West,A. Arnold Gillespie,Jan Struther,Urie McCleary,Arthur Wimperis,George Froeschel,Douglas Shearer.
Q: When Did the “Mrs. Miniver” Released?
A: The Movie “Mrs. Miniver” originally aired on 1942-06-04 and released in the year of 1942.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “Mrs. Miniver” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “Mrs. Miniver” ?
A: “Mrs. Miniver” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
