The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Deanna Durbin
Ruth Kirke Holliday
Edmond O'Brien
Tom Holliday
Barry Fitzgerald
Timothy Blake
Arthur Treacher
Henderson
Harry Davenport
Commodore Thomas Spencer Holliday
Grant Mitchell
Edgar Holliday
Frieda Inescort
Karen Holliday
Elisabeth Risdon
Jonathan Hale
Esther Dale
Gus Schilling
Bess Flowers
Reporter
Ted J. Kent
Editor
Jean Renoir
Co-Director
Hans Jacoby
Writer
Frank Skinner
Original Music Composer
Hans J. Salter
Original Music Composer
Boris Ingster
Writer
Sonya Levien
Story
Bruce Manning
Director / Producer
Leo Townsend
Writer
Elwood Bredell
Director of Photography
Frank Ryan
Writer
Frank Shaw
Associate Producer
Olaf Hytten
Christopher Severn
Philip Ahn
Irving Bacon
Wade Boteler
John F. Hamilton
Yvonne Severn
Eddie Dunn
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 19, 1943
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 36m
Content RatingNR
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday is a 1943 American comedy drama film produced and directed by Bruce Manning and starring Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, and Barry Fitzgerald.Based on a story by Sonya Levien, the film is about a young idealistic missionary who smuggles a group of Chinese war orphans into the United States posing as the wife of a wealthy commodore who went missing after their ship was torpedoed and sunk. After safely sequestering the orphans in the commodore's family mansion, her plans start to unravel when she falls in love with commodore's grandson and the commodore himself turns up alive and well.
Originally intended as Durbin's dramatic debut, Universal insisted on adding songs. The original director of the film was Jean Renoir, and though most of his completed footage was retained, final directorial credit was given to Bruce Manning, the film's producer.Frank Skinner and Hans J. Salter were nominated for an Oscar for Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.