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Journey For Margaret (1942) - (Movie Clip) Little Margaret Here

Not strictly a movie debut, but one of the most famous, Margaret O’Brien, age five, as the war-orphan title character, Heather Thatcher her failed foster mother, Fay Bainter head of the London children’s home, Robert Young a softening American newsman, in MGM”s Journey For Margaret, 1942.

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An American correspondent (Robert Young) tries to adopt two children orphaned during the London blitz in Journey for Margaret (1942).
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Young Margaret (O’Brien, in her first starring role) and Peter (William Severn) have grown so attached that American newsman John (Robert Young) finds he can’t leave them with the generous London couple (Halliwell Hobbes, Doris Lloyd) who’ve agreed to adopt them, in MGM’s Journey For Margaret, 1942.
Journey For Margaret (1942) -- (Movie Clip) After The Fall Of France
The opening (not featuring title character Margaret O’Brien, in her first billed role), as expectant parents John and Nora (Robert Young, Laraine Day) arrive in London, 1939, having fled France, greeted by Herbert (Nigel Bruce), in MGM’s Journey For Margaret, 1942, based on real events.

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