Drama

Romance

Since You Went Away

Selznick International Pictures

United States of America

English

Claudette Colbert

Jennifer Jones

Joseph Cotten

Shirley Temple

Monty Woolley

Lionel Barrymore

Robert Walker

Hattie McDaniel

Agnes Moorehead

Alla Nazimova

Albert Bassermann

Gordon Oliver

Keenan Wynn

Guy Madison

Craig Stevens

Lloyd Corrigan

Jackie Moran

Dorothy Adams

Irving Bacon

Conrad Binyon

Dorothy Dandridge

John Derek

Jimmie Dodd

Rhonda Fleming

Ann Gillis

Eddie Hall

Warren Hymer

Edwin Maxwell

Andrew V. McLaglen

Terry Moore

Aileen Pringle

Ruth Roman

Grady Sutton

Theodore von Eltz

Doodles Weaver

Butterfly McQueen

John Cromwell

David O. Selznick

Max Steiner

Mark-Lee Kirk

Lee Garmes

Stanley Cortez

William L. Pereira

Margaret Martin

Lowell J. Farrell

Margaret Buell Wilder

Victor A. Gangelin

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Claudette Colbert is great as the struggling "Anne", who must bring up her two daughters "Jane" (Jennifer Jones) and "Brig" (Shirley Temple) whilst her husband is off fighting in WWII. To assist with the usual problems of making ends meet, she must take in a lodger "Col. Smollett" (Monty Woolley). At times you cannot help but feel for this poor lady who is constantly at the end of her tether. Their lodger is fastidious to say the least - he hates children, pets and yes, who better to illustrate that military pomposity than an on-form Woolley. To add to her woes, the young "Jane" is obsessed with men - more particularly their family friend "Tony" (Joseph Cotton). A man some years her senior who joins the navy leaving poor old "Jane" unaware that she is the object of the affections of their house guest's rather hapless grandson "Bill" (Robert Walker). On the face of it, this all appears rather convoluted but Colbert, Woolley and Cotten really do gel well together providing a quickly paced and entertaining series of escapades that, though exaggerated, do ring true a little for many households during the war that were left bereft of funds and a father/husband. Temple features now and again, largely do-gooding for the war effort by collecting junk, and Jones delivers well as both girls have to grip up - whether they like it or not. Max Steiner provides a lively, jaunty, score that sets and keeps the pace engaging and sometimes frenetic - but it's Colbert who shows she is very much the star here. I enjoyed it.

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Claudette Colbert

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Joseph Cotten

Shirley Temple

Monty Woolley

Lionel Barrymore

Robert Walker

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