The Secret Garden

TCM's Dave Karger introduces The Secret Garden, 1949.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Secret Garden, 1949.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Secret Garden, 1949.

Ben Mankiewicz Intro — The Secret Garden (1949)

Orphan Mary (Margaret O'Brien), caught while seeking the source of the night time screaming, is summoned to see her mysterious uncle (Herbert Marshall) who's adopted her, in The Secret Garden, 1949, directed by Fred M. Wilcox.

Trying again to find out who’s been screaming in the dark English manor of the uncle who’s adopted her, orphan Mary discovers Colin (Dean Stockwell), her heretofore unknown cousin, who has strange attitudes, in The Secret Garden, 1949, from the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel.

Mopping up after a cholera epidemic in India, a British officer (Lowell Gilmore) finds himself informing young Mary (Margaret O'Brien) that she's an orphan, early in The Secret Garden, 1949.

Orphaned Mary (Margaret O'Brien), just arrived from India, meets her none-too-helpful new servant Martha (Elsa Lanchester) on her first morning in her uncle's home, in The Secret Garden, 1949.

Unhappy and wandering the grounds of her uncle's estate, orphan Mary (Margaret O'Brien) bumps into quirky Dickon (Brian Roper), the younger brother of her new maid, in The Secret Garden, 1949, directed by Fred M. Wilcox.

An orphaned girl learns to think of others first under the tutelage of The Secret Garden (1949) in the best-loved version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic tale.