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Release Date: 2012
Cast: Craig Stevens, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Hattie McDaniel, Alla Nazimova, Shirley Temple, Keenan Wynn, Jennifer Jones, Monty Woolley, Lionel Barrymore, Guy Madison, Albert Bassermann ...MORE
Cast: Craig Stevens, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Hattie McDaniel, Alla Nazimova, Shirley Temple, Keenan Wynn, Jennifer Jones, Monty Woolley, Lionel Barrymore, Guy Madison, Albert Bassermann, Robert Walker, Claudette Colbert ...LESS
Categories: Movies, War Film, Roadshow Theatrical Release, Family Drama, Drama Film, Black-And-White
Since You Went Away is a 1944 film distributed by United Artists, a big-budget epic about the American home front during World War II. It was directed by John Cromwell and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder. The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Stanley Cortez, Lee Garmes, George Barnes (uncredited) and Robert Bruce (uncredited).
The movie is set in a mid-sized American town, where people with loved ones in the military try to cope with their changed circumstances... MORE
Since You Went Away is a 1944 film distributed by United Artists, a big-budget epic about the American home front during World War II. It was directed by John Cromwell and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder. The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Stanley Cortez, Lee Garmes, George Barnes (uncredited) and Robert Bruce (uncredited).
The movie is set in a mid-sized American town, where people with loved ones in the military try to cope with their changed circumstances and make their own contributions to the war effort. The main characters are a housewife whose husband is away in the service and her two daughters who are just growing into womanhood. The story runs from early January to late December 1943; the film itself was made in late 1943 and early 1944. Though sentimental, Since You Went Away is more somber and realistic about the carnage of war and the pain of separation than some other homefront movies made during World War II.
According to Bosley Crowther, Since You Went Away, Selznick's first screen production in four years, features a script with an LESS
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