Major Barbara (1941)
- Starring:
- Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, (more)
- Director(s):
- Gabriel Pascal, David Lean, (more)
Synopsis of Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy about wealth and poverty is brought to the screen with wonderful performances by Rex Harrison and Wendy Hiller. Hiller plays Major Barbara Undershaft, a major in the Salvation Army who is also a socialist and stridently attacks capitalists -- in particular her father Andrew (Robert Morley), the head of a munitions plant. In love with Barbara is the young Greek scholar Adolphus Cusins (Rex Harrison), whose attentions go unreturned since Barbara spends all her time on her crusade against wealth. To show up his daughter, Andrew donates 50,000 pounds to the Salvation Army which, to Barbara's horror, the Army's general (Sybil Thorndike) happily accepts. Barbara, in protest, quits her post and it is left to Adolphus to take her on a tour of her father's munitions plant and prove to her the benefits of capitalism. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
Complete Cast of Major Barbara
- Wendy Hiller - Maj. Barbara Undershaft
- Robert Morley - Andrew Undershaft
- Emlyn Williams - Snobby Price
- Sybil Thorndike - Mrs. Baines
- Penelope Dudley-Ward - Sarah Undershaft
- Donald Calthrop - Peter Shirley
- Felix Aylmer - James
- Stanley Holloway - Policeman
- Bombardier Billy Wells
- Edward Rigby
- Kathleen Harrison - Mrs. Price
- Rex Harrison - Adolphus Cusins
- Robert Newton - Bill Walker
- Deborah Kerr - Jenny Hill
- David Tree - Charles Lomax
- Marie Lohr - Lady Brittomart
- Miles Malleson - Morrison
- Cathleen Cordell - Mog Habbijam
- Mary Morris - A Girl
- Torin Thatcher - Todger Fairmile
- Walter Hudd - Stephen Undershaft
- Marie Ault - Rummy Mitchens
- Director(s):
- David Lean, Harold French, Gabriel Pascal
- Writer(s):
- George Bernard Shaw, Anatole de Grunwald, Gabriel Pascal
- Producer(s):
- Gabriel Pascal
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