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...Miniver (Greer Garson, Teresa Wright, Walter Pidgeon, Richard Ney; TIME, June...
...family is the Minivers (Greer Garson & Walter Pidgeon). The house is their spacious, chintzy, suburban home outside London. They are a happy couple in the lowering summer...
Wyler is renowned for shooting more film than any other director in the business. His reputation for wearing out actors with "unnecessary" retakes almost cost him the Grade A performance of Walter Pidgeon in Mrs. Miniver. It also earned him a rare tribute...
Tired from overwork and wary of hard-driving Director Wyler, Pidgeon agreed to play Mr. Miniver, with reservations. Before starting he sat on the set for a few days, watched Wyler shoot one apparently perfect take after another. "But on the 18th take," says Pidgeon, "I suddenly knew about Wyler. It was perfect, but it hit you in the pit of the stomach like a sudden, perfect chord of music. It made all those perfect-looking previous takes look like hell." When the picture was finished, he said: "I left the screening of Miniver trying to remember which...
There are no stars in the film, no one personality around whom the picture's structure is built. Instead, each of the individual performances--Walter Pidgeon as the town clergyman, Donald Crisp as the courageous head of the Morgan family, Maureen O'Hara as his daughter, Roddy McDowall as Huw Morgan, through whose words the story is told--forms a part of the broad pattern which the film so effectively presents...