Mrs. Miniver (film)

Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 American romantic war drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on the 1940 novel Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther, the film shows how the life of an unassuming British housewife in rural England is touched by World War II. She sees her eldest son go to war, finds herself confronting a German pilot who has parachuted into her idyllic village while her husband is participating in the Dunkirk evacuation, and loses her daughterinlaw as a casualty.

Kay Miniver Greer Garson and her family live a comfortable life at a house called Starlings in Belham, a fictional village outside London. The house has a large garden, with a private landing stage on the River Thames at which is moored a motorboat belonging to her devoted husband Clem Walter Pidgeon, a successful architect. They have three children the youngsters Toby Christopher Severn and Judy Clare Sandars and an older son Vin Richard Ney a student at a university. They have livein staff Gladys Brenda Forbes the housemaid and Ada Marie De Becker the cook.As World War II looms, Vin returns from the university and meets Carol Beldon Teresa Wright, granddaughter of Lady Beldon Dame May Whitty from nearby Beldon Hall. Despite initial disagreementsmainly contrasting Vins idealistic attitude to class differences with Carols practical altruismthey fall in love. Vin proposes to Carol in front of his family at home, after his younger brother prods him to give a less romantic but more honest proposal. As the war comes closer to home, Vin feels he must do his bit and enlists in the Royal Air Force, qualifying as a fighter pilot. He is posted to a base near to his parents home and is able to signal his safe return from operations to his parents by cutting his engines briefly as he flies over the house. Together with other boat owners, Clem volunteers to take his motorboat to assist in the Dunkirk evacuation. ........

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