Since You Went Away (1944)

NR06/30/1944Drama, Romance, War2h 57m
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A love story of today's love and laughter

Overview

In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.

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  1. Cast 1

    Claudette Colbert

    Mrs. Anne Hilton

  2. Cast 1

    Jennifer Jones

    Jane Deborah Hilton

  3. Cast 1

    Joseph Cotten

    Lieutenant Tony Willett

  4. Cast 1

    Shirley Temple

    Bridget 'Brig' Hilton

  5. Cast 1

    Monty Woolley

    Colonel William G. Smollett

  6. Cast 1

    Lionel Barrymore

    Clergyman

  7. Cast 1

    Robert Walker

    Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II

  8. Cast 1

    Hattie McDaniel

    Fidelia

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    Agnes Moorehead

    Mrs. Emily Hawkins

Claudette Colbert is great as the struggling "Anne", who must bring up her two daughters "Jane" (Jennifer Jones) and "Brig" (Shirley Temple) whilst her husband is off fighting in WWII. To assist with the usual problems of making ends meet, she must take in a lodger "Col. Smollett" (Monty Woolley). At times you cannot help but feel for this poor lady who is constantly at the end of her tether. Their lodger is fastidious to say the least - he hates children, pets and yes, who better to illustrate that military pomposity than an on-form Woolley. To add to her woes, the young "Jane" is obsessed wi...