The White Cliffs of Dover (film)

The White Cliffs of Dover is a 1944 film made by MetroGoldwynMayer, 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 titled The White Cliffs with the credit of additional poetry by Robert Nathan. Nathan stated in an interview that he wrote the screenplay in his first work as a contract writer for MGM but the studio credited Claudine West who died in 1943 as a tribute to her. The role of Betsy was shared. Betsy as a little girl at agewas played by Elizabeth Taylor and Betsy as a young woman was played by June Lockhart.

In 1914, Susan and her father Hiram P. Dunn Frank Morgan publisher of a smalltown newspaper come to Britain, intending to stay a week. Old Colonel Forsythe C. Aubrey Smith introduces Susan to Sir John Ashwood Alan Marshal, a baronet and one of the landed gentry, with an estate and manor house. They fall in love, and despite some friction over her being American, they marry.Their honeymoon is cut short when World War I breaks out. John is also an army officer he rejoins his regiment and goes to war in France. Susan and Johns mother, Lady Jean Gladys Cooper must wait for news, good or bad. Johns brother Reggie John Warburton is killed in action. John finally gets a chance to be with Susan for a few days in France, which they spend in Dieppe. During their stay, the United States declares war on Germany. ........

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