The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
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. The Amazing Mrs. Holliday received an Academy Award nomination for Best Score.
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Cast:
- Philip Ahn
- Irving Bacon
- Vangie Beilby
- Linda Bieber
- George Chandler
- Esther Dale
- Harry Davenport
- Diane DuBois
- Deanna Durbin
- Barry Fitzgerald
- Jonathan Hale
- John F. Hamilton
- Frieda Inescort
- Teddy Infuhr
- Grant Mitchell
- Edmond O'Brien
- Mila Rich
- Vido Rich
- Elisabeth Risdon
- Gus Schilling
- Christopher Severn
- Yvonne Severn
- Arthur Treacher
- Charles Trowbridge