Journey for Margaret (1942)

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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 her… 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

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 21 min.
Directed By: W.S. Van Dyke
Written By: William Ludwig
Genres: Drama, Classics

In Theaters: Oct 28, 1942 Wide
On DVD: Aug 19, 1992

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Cast

            Margaret O'Brien as Margaret White

            Robert Young as John Davis

            Laraine Day as Nora Davis

            Fay Bainter as Trudy Strauss

            Nigel Bruce as Herbert V. Allison

            William Severn as Peter Humphreys

            Elizabeth Risdon as Mrs. Bailey

            Doris Lloyd as Mrs. Barrie

            Halliwell Hobbes as Mr. Barrie

            Heather Thatcher as Mrs. Harris

            Jill Esmond as Susan Fleming

            Lisa Golm as Frau Weber

            Jimmy Aubrey as Porter

            Anita Bolster as Woman

            Matthew Boulton as Warden

            John Burton as Surgeon

            Cyril Delevanti as Stage Manager

            Herbert Evans as Man

            Al Ferguson as Policeman

            G.P. Huntley as Rugged

            Jo Gilbert as Mme. Bornholm

            Henry Guttman as Polish Captain

            Margaret Hamilton
            
            Signe Hasso as Anya

            Leyland Hodgson as Censor

            Olaf Hytten as Manager

            Lilyan Irene as Nurse

            Charles Irwin as Fairoaks

            Colin Kenny as Steward

            Crauford Kent as Everton

            Keye Luke as Japanese Statesman

            Miles Mander
            
            Clive Morgan as Father

            Ottola Nesmith as Nurse

            Bea Nigro as Nora's Mother

            David Thursby as Air Raid Warden

            Eric Snowden as Porter

            Doris Stone as Mother
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