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...Miss Bainter in "The War Against Mrs. Hadley" portrays very ably a society woman who blindly tries to lead her old life amid conditions and activities of war. Edward Arnold is also good...
...Bainter as the mother is Saroyan's Cornelia: the mother of all the human race, who sees happiness through suffering, and finds solace in prayer. Father Ray Collins is dead, but his spirit returns at any given moment with words of comfort, and the MacCauleys are always aware of his presence...
...four-year-old Ulysses (Jack Jenkins), called "Useless" for short by his playmates, is Homer's kid brother. He constantly asks unanswerable questions, learns about life from such simple but significant incidents as a Negro's friendly wave from a passing freight train. Other Macauleys: Mother (Fay Bainter), Sister Bess (Donna Reed), who goes to college, and Brother Marcus (Van Johnson), who is in the Army...
...when she arrives at a London refuge for orphaned children. She stands stiffly, a strange little figure with a tall stocking cap, the shell of a magnesium (incendiary) bomb slung on a cord around her neck, ceaselessly rubbing her dry eyes with her palms. The lady in charge (Fay Bainter) suggests that she may cry if she wishes. Margaret: "You won't smack me if I beller?" "No." Margaret begins to sob, finally relieves her pent-up tension and fears in wild, convulsing wails...
This strange story and its performance (it is billed as "the American Mrs. Miniver") fit each other like gloves without hands in them. Fay Bainter succeeds against hopeless odds in making her absurd part plausible. So does Miles Mander, as the neurasthenic doctor. There are moments of high farce when the air-warden butler gets mixed up with Spring Byington (in her bedroom) during a blackout, and when the Widow Bainter wanders in on a kind of middle-aged seraglio scene with first-aiders all wound up in one another's bandages. Otherwise, high seriousness is the note...