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Article: When Hollywood got it right.
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- Catholic Insight
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- March 1, 2002
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One very dreary Sunday afternoon recently, I curled up in my living room to watch the 1944 film Since You Went Away. Starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple, Monty Woolley, Robert Walker, Joseph Gotten and Hattie McDaniel, this was David O. Selznick's answer to Mrs. Miniver, that inspirational British tribute to the homefront during World War II.
The film opens with the words: "This is the story of the Unconquerable Fortress, the American home, 1943." Cut to Colbert (as housewife Anne Hilton) coming home on a rainy afternoon in January 1943 after seeing her husband Tim off to war. She confronts his empty leather chair and then greets their two ...