Oct 10, 2009 | KQED-TV San Francisco
Duration: 2:13:46 CC TVG According to Winston Churchill, this drama about a middle-class English family learning to cope with WWII helped rally American support for the British allies, "doing more for the war effort than a flotilla of destroyers," despite its typical Hollywood depiction of British life.
It has been awhile since I traveled down Memory Lane in the Tug Valley area and it's interesting to note the happenings that were claiming our attention in 1942 and today during the Mideast conflict in which we are participating.
Greer Garson won an Oscar for her portrayal in the 1942 movie "Mrs. Miniver" of a wife and mother whose family is torn apart by the early days of World War II in England.
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