Journey for Margaret (1942)
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50% of users liked it
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This wartime weeper could just as well have been titled Stardom for Margaret, inasmuch as it solidified the popularity of that remarkable child actress Margaret O'Brien. While visiting London, American married couple Robert Young and Laraine Day are caught in the middle of the 1940 blitz. Losing… More This wartime weeper could just as well have been titled Stardom for Margaret, inasmuch as it solidified the popularity of that remarkable child actress Margaret O'Brien. While visiting London, American married couple Robert Young and Laraine Day are caught in the middle of the 1940 blitz. Losing her unborn child during the bombing, Day sadly heads back to the U.S., while her journalist husband stays behind to cover late-breaking events. Young makes the acquaintance of O'Brien and Clifford Severn, children orphaned by the blitz. After pulling the shell-shocked O'Brien out of her near-catatonic state, Young decides to adopt both children and take them back to his wife in the States. There are some tense moments as Young tilts at the stepped-up immigration restrictions, but he is finally able to bring his new family home. Journey for Margaret stars Robert Young and Margaret O'Brien would be reunited two decades later on an episode of Young's TV series Marcus Welby MD, in which Ms. O'Brien played a patient suffering from obesity. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- W.S. Van Dyke
- Written By
- William Ludwig
- Genres
- Drama, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 28, 1942 Wide
- On DVD
- Aug 19, 1992
Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
At age 5, Margaret P'Brien became a major Hollywood star after playing a war orphan in this fact-inspired melodrama, based on a best-selling book.
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Cast
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Margaret O'Brien
as Margaret White
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Robert Young
as John Davis
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Laraine Day
as Nora Davis
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Fay Bainter
as Trudy Strauss
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Nigel Bruce
as Herbert V. Allison
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William Severn
as Peter Humphreys
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Elizabeth Risdon
as Mrs. Bailey
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Doris Lloyd
as Mrs. Barrie
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Halliwell Hobbes
as Mr. Barrie
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Heather Thatcher
as Mrs. Harris
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Jill Esmond
as Susan Fleming
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Lisa Golm
as Frau Weber
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Jimmy Aubrey
as Porter
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Anita Bolster
as Woman
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Matthew Boulton
as Warden
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John Burton
as Surgeon
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Cyril Delevanti
as Stage Manager
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Herbert Evans
as Man
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Al Ferguson
as Policeman
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G.P. Huntley
as Rugged
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Jo Gilbert
as Mme. Bornholm
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Henry Guttman
as Polish Captain
- Margaret Hamilton
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Signe Hasso
as Anya
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Leyland Hodgson
as Censor
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Olaf Hytten
as Manager
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Lilyan Irene
as Nurse
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Charles Irwin
as Fairoaks
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Colin Kenny
as Steward
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Crauford Kent
as Everton
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Keye Luke
as Japanese Statesman
- Miles Mander
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Clive Morgan
as Father
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Ottola Nesmith
as Nurse
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Bea Nigro
as Nora's Mother
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David Thursby
as Air Raid Warden
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Eric Snowden
as Porter
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Doris Stone
as Mother
