Since You Went Away
1944 film by John Cromwell / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Since You Went Away is a 1944 American epic drama film directed by John Cromwell for Selznick International Pictures and distributed by United Artists. It is an epic about the American home front during World War II that was adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the 1943 novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder.[3] The music score was by Max Steiner, and the cinematography by Stanley Cortez, Lee Garmes, George Barnes (uncredited), and Robert Bruce (uncredited).
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Directed by | John Cromwell |
Screenplay by | David O. Selznick |
Based on | an adaptation of her book by Margaret Buell Wilder |
Produced by | David O. Selznick |
Starring | Claudette Colbert Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Shirley Temple Monty Woolley Lionel Barrymore Robert Walker |
Cinematography | Stanley Cortez, A.S.C. Lee Garmes, A.S.C. |
Edited by | Hal C. Kern (supervising film editor) James E. Newcom (associate film editor) John D. Faure Arthur Fellows Wayland M. Hendry[1] (uncredited) |
Music by | Max Steiner |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 172 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3,257,000[2] |
Box office | $7 million+[2] |
The film is set in a mid-sized American town, where people with loved ones in the armed forces try to cope with their changed circumstances and make their own contributions to the war effort. The town is near a military base, and some of the characters are troops serving Stateside.
Though sentimental in places, Since You Went Away is somber at times about the effects of war on ordinary people. Some characters on the home front are dealing with grief, loneliness, or fear for the future. Wounded and disabled troops are shown in the hospital scenes.