My Son, My Son!
1940 film
- March 22, 1940 (1940-03-22)
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My Son, My Son! is a 1940 American drama film directed by Charles Vidor and based on a novel by the same name written by Howard Spring. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by John DuCasse Schulze.[1]
Plot
Cast
- Madeleine Carroll as Livia Vaynol
- Brian Aherne as William Essex
- Louis Hayward as Oliver Essex
- Laraine Day as Maeve O'Riorden
- Henry Hull as Dermot O'Riorden
- Josephine Hutchinson as Nellie Moscrop Essex
- Sophie Stewart as Sheila O'Riorden
- Bruce Lester as Rory O'Riorden
- Scotty Beckett as Oliver as a Child
- Brenda Henderson as Maeve as a Child
- Teddy Moorwood as Rory as a Child
- May Beatty as Annie
- Stanley Logan as The Colonel
- Lionel Belmore as Mr. Moscrop
- Mary Gordon as Mrs. Mulvaney
- David Clyde as Drayman
- Vesey O'Davoren as Parker, Butler
- Pat Flaherty as Joe Baxter
- Victor Kendall as Pogson
- Mary Field as Betsy, First Maid
- Audrey Manners as Second Maid
- Sibyl Harris as First Landlady
- Connie Leon as Second Landlady
Production
Edward Small bought the film rights to the book for $50,000[2] and believed that the story could provide an ideal vehicle for his new star Louis Hayward.[3] Lenore Coffee, who wrote the script, said that Small "was a rather ignorant man, but he had inklings and hunches ... I liked him very much. He had a hunch about My Son, My Son! and he bought it. He had never bought an elegant story before."[4]
Production of the film was temporarily halted with the outbreak of World War II.[5]
References
- ^ "NY Times: My Son, My Son!". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2012. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012. Retrieved December 13, 2008.
- ^ "Marshall Will Play in 'My Son, My Son': Europe Lures Notables Students Belittle Stars Tommy Kelly Assigned Ann Sheridan's New Role" Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times March 28, 1939: 15.
- ^ "ENTER VILLAIN LOUIS HAYWARD!". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. May 18, 1940. p. 36 Supplement: The Movie World. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ^ McGilligan, Patrick (1986). "Lenore Coffee: Easy Smiler, Easy Weeper". In McGilligan, Patrick (ed.). Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age. p. 146.
- ^ "PRODUCERS GIRD FOR WAR: The Cinema Capital Contemplates Its Probable Effects Upon the Industry" by DOUGLAS W. CHURCHILL. New York Times September 10, 1939: X3.
External links
- My Son, My Son! at IMDb
- My Son, My Son! on Lux Radio Theater: March 11, 1940
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Films directed by Charles Vidor
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- Sensation Hunters (1933)
- Double Door (1934)
- Strangers All (1935)
- The Arizonian (1935)
- His Family Tree (1935)
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- The Great Gambini (1937)
- Romance of the Redwoods (1939)
- Blind Alley (1939)
- Those High Grey Walls (1939)
- My Son, My Son! (1940)
- The Lady in Question (1940)
- Ladies in Retirement (1941)
- New York Town (1941)
- The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)
- The Desperadoes (1943)
- Cover Girl (1944)
- Together Again (1944)
- A Song to Remember (1945)
- Over 21 (1945)
- Gilda (1946)
- The Loves of Carmen (1948)
- Thunder in the East (1951)
- Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
- Rhapsody (1954)
- Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
- The Swan (1956)
- The Joker Is Wild (1957)
- A Farewell to Arms (1957)
- Song Without End (1960)
