ID

FBW001318      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1944

Original Title

Since You Went Away

Directed by

John Cromwell

Produced by

United Artists Corp., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Producer: David O. Selznick; Script: David O. Selznick; Based on: Margaret Buell Wilder ("Together"); Adaptation: Margaret Buell Wilder; Camera: Stanley Cortez, Lee Garmes, Jack Cosgrove; Editing: Hal C. Kern, James E. Newcom, Don DiFaure, Arthur Fellows, Wayland M. Hendrys; Art direction: Mark-Lee Kirk, Victor A. Gangelin; Production design: William L. Oereira; Special Effects: Jack Cosgrove, Clarence Slifer; Makeup: Robert Stephanoff; Music: Max Steiner, Louis Forbes; Choreography: Charles Walters

Cast

Claudette Colbert (Anne Hilton); Jennifer Jones (Jane); Shirley Temple (Bridget "Brig" Hilton); Joseph Cotten (Lt. Anthony Willett); Monty Woolley (Col. Smollett); Robert Walker (Cpl. William G. Smollett II); Lionel Barrymore (Clergyman); Hattie McDaniel; Agnes Moorehead (Emily Hawkins); Guy Madison (Harold Smith); Craig Stevens (Danny Williams); Keenan Wynn (Lt. Solomon); Albert Bassermann (Dr. Sigmund Gottlieb Golden); Alla Nazimova (Zosia Koslowska); Lloyd Corrigan (Mr. Mahoney); Jackie Moran (Marine Officer); Jane Devlin (Gladys Brown); Ann Gillis (Becky Anderson); Dorothy Garner (Sugar); Byron Foulger (Principal); Edwin Maxwell (Businessman); Florence Bates (Hungry Woman); Theodore von Eltz (Desk Clerk); Adeline de Walt Reynolds (Elderly Woman); Doodles Weaver (Convalescent); Warren Hymer (Convalescent); Jonathan Hale (Conductor); Eilene Janssen (Sergeant's Child); William B. Davidson (Taxpayer); Ruth Roman (Envious Girl); Rhonda Fleming (Girl); Andrew V. McLaglen (Former Plowboy); Jill Warren (Waitress); Terry Moore (credited as Helen Koford) ( Refugee Child); Oswald Johnson (Black Officer); Dorothy Dandridge (Black Officer's Wife); Johnny Bond (AWOL); Irving Bacon (Bartender); George Chandler (Cabbie); Addison Richards (Maj. Atkins); Barbara Pepper (Pin Girl); Harry Hayden (Conductor); Jimmy Clemons (Boy Caroler); Charles Williams; Neil Hart; Robert Anderson; Shelby Bacon; Aileen Pringle; Wallis Clark; James Carlisle; Leo Mostovoy; Joyce Horne; John A. James; Mary Anne Durkin; Richard C. Wood; Ruth Valmy; Grady Sutton; Buddy Gorman; Tom Dawson; Patricia Peters; George Lloyd; Russell Hoyt; Loudie Claar; Don Marjarian; Conrad Binyon; Jimmie Dodd; Christopher Adams; Martha Outlaw; Verna Knopf; Robert Cherry; Kirk Barron; Earl Jacobs; Cecil Ballerino; Jack Gardner; James Westerfield; Ralph Reed; Paul Esberg; William Jillson; Dorothy Mann; Peggy Maley; Dorothy Adams; Derek Harris; Eddie Hall; Warren Barr; Neyle Marx; Betsy Howard; Terry Revell; Stephen Wayne; Walter Baldwin; Marilyn Hare; Eric Sinclair; Lela Bliss; Harlan Miller

Length

3693 m / 135'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

Focusing on the plight of those left behind when the soldiers went off to fight in WWII, the film focuses on the wartime life of Anne Hilton and her two daughters, after Anne Hilton's husband leaves his family and his job in the advertising business to go off to fight in the war. Jane is in love with a soldier - Cpl. William G. Smollett II, a corporal, who returns from the service to romance her.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US)

Bibliography

- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987