Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 American drama directed by William Wyler for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, following a middle-class English housewife and her family as the Second World War disrupts their rural life through air raids, the Dunkirk evacuation and personal loss. It won six Academy Awards including Best Picture, becoming the first film centered on the war to take the award, and was the highest-grossing film of the year. President Franklin Roosevelt ordered it rushed into theaters for its propaganda value, and a sermon delivered near its end was reprinted in magazines and dropped as leaflets over occupied Europe.
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June 4, 1942 (Radio City Music Hall, New York City)
Mrs. Miniver, lead paragraph (Wikipedia), original language
Miniver is a 1942 American romantic war drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon.
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Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 American romantic war drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Inspired by the 1940 novel Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther, it shows how the life of an unassuming British
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Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 American romantic war drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Inspired by the 1940 novel Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther, it shows how the life of an unassuming British
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