Mrs. Miniver

Introduction and comments following Mrs. Miniver, 1942 with TCM's Ben Mankiewicz and guest Nick Mueller, Ph. D.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Mrs. Miniver, 1942.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Mrs. Miniver, 1942.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces Mrs. Miniver>/B>, 1942.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Mrs. Miniver, 1942.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces Mrs. Miniver, 1942.

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With neighbors in the local river patrol in south-eastern England, Clem Miniver (Walter Pidgeon) finds out that they’ve been summoned from their beds to take part in the evacuation of the trapped British force from Dunkirk, France, 1940, a rousing moment from MGM’s Mrs. Miniver, 1942.

News of England’s entry into WWII during Sunday services, the Minivers (Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Richard Ney, Christopher Severn, Clare Sanders), pleased to see Carol (Teresa Wright) with Lady Beldon (Dame May Whitty), as the vicar (Henry Wilcoxon) speaks, in Mrs. Miniver, 1942.

The third scene, England, 1939, Greer Garson (title character) arrives at the fictional Kentish village of Belham after shopping in London, where the station master Ballard (Henry Travers) has a query and a tribute, a key moment in William Wyler’s wartime morale booster Mrs. Miniver, 1942.

Young Vin (Richard Ney) is home from Oxford holding forth for mum and dad (Greer Garson, title character, and Walter Pidgeon) when Teresa Wright as Carol, born to the local nobility, introduces herself, worried about the flower show, a pre-war vignette from William Wyler’s Mrs. Miniver, 1942.

Her son with the RAF and husband with the civilian nautical force evacuating Dunkirk, Greer Garson (title character) at home in England finds a downed German flier (Viennese Helmut Dantine, in his first credited role) in the garden, a famous scene from the Best Picture winner Mrs. Miniver, 1942.

A British family struggles to survive the first days of World War II in Mrs. Miniver (1942), directed by William Wyler and starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon and Teresa Wright.