Journey for Margaret (1942)
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Synopsis of Journey for Margaret
This wartime weeper could just as well have been titled Stardom for Margaret, inasmuch as it solidified the popularity of that remarkable child actress Margaret O'Brien. While visiting London, American married couple Robert Young and Laraine Day are caught in the middle of the 1940 blitz. Losing her unborn child during the bombing, Day sadly heads back to the U.S., while her journalist husband stays behind to cover late-breaking events. Young makes the acquaintance of O'Brien and Clifford Severn, children orphaned by the blitz. After pulling the shell-shocked O'Brien out of her near-catatonic state, Young decides to adopt both children and take them back to his wife in the States. There are some tense moments as Young tilts at the stepped-up immigration restrictions, but he is finally able to bring his new family home. Journey for Margaret stars Robert Young and Margaret O'Brien would be reunited two decades later on an episode of Young's TV series Marcus Welby MD, in which Ms. O'Brien played a patient suffering from obesity. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Journey for Margaret
- Margaret O'Brien - Margaret White
- Robert Young - John Davis
- Nigel Bruce - Herbert V. Allison
- Elizabeth Risdon - Mrs. Bailey
- Halliwell Hobbes - Mr. Barrie
- Jill Esmond - Susan Fleming
- Jimmy Aubrey - Porter
- Matthew Boulton - Warden
- Olaf Hytten - Manager
- Ottola Nesmith - Nurse
- Miles Mander
- Crauford Kent - Everton
- Charles Irwin - Fairoaks
- Herbert Evans - Man
- Doris Stone - Mother
- David Thursby - Air Raid Warden
- Signe Hasso - Anya
- Jo Gilbert - Mme. Bornholm
- John Burton - Surgeon
- Laraine Day - Nora Davis
- Fay Bainter - Trudy Strauss
- William Severn - Peter Humphreys
- Doris Lloyd - Mrs. Barrie
- Heather Thatcher - Mrs. Harris
- Lisa Golm - Frau Weber
- Anita Bolster - Woman
- Margaret Hamilton
- Bea Nigro - Nora's Mother
- Clive Morgan - Father
- Keye Luke - Japanese Statesman
- Colin Kenny - Steward
- Lilyan Irene - Nurse
- G.P. Huntley - Rugged
- Eric Snowden - Porter
- Leyland Hodgson - Censor
- Henry Guttman - Polish Captain
- Al Ferguson - Policeman
- Cyril Delevanti - Stage Manager
- Director(s):
- W.S. Van Dyke
- Writer(s):
- William Ludwig, David Hertz
- Producer(s):
- B.P. Fineman, B.F. Fineman
- 1942 - National Board of Review - Best Acting
- 1942 - National Board of Review - Best Acting
- 1942 - National Board of Review - Best Acting
- 1942 - New York Times - 10 Best Films
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