Directed by:
Joseph L. MankiewiczScreenplay:
Philip DunneCinematography:
Joseph LaShelleComposer:
Cyril J. MockridgeCast:
Ronald Colman, Vanessa Brown, Richard Haydn, Charles Russell, Percy Waram, Mildred Natwick, Edna Best, Peggy Cummins, David Bond, Mae Marsh, Diana Douglas (more)Plots(1)
Based on John P. Marquand's Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical novel of the same title, this film stars Ronald Colman as George Apley, a Beantown blueblood passionately in love with his hometown. In his mind, Boston is the world's center of modern civilization and gentility and he has made it very clear that his son and daughter are to remain there for their entire lives and only associate with native Bostonians. Imagine poor Apley's horror, then, when his Harvard-student son falls in love with a Worcester girl and his daughter falls in love with a Yale student. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ronald Colman
UK
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Vanessa Brown
Austria
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Richard Haydn
UK
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Charles Russell
USA
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Percy Waram
UK
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Mildred Natwick
USA
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Edna Best
UK
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Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
Peggy Cummins
UK
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David Bond
USA
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Mae Marsh
USA
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Diana Douglas
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Paul Harvey
USA
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Richard Ney
USA
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Wyndham Standing
UK
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Nydia Westman
USA
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Kathleen Howard
Canada
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Francis Pierlot
USA
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Robert Riordan
USA
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Bonnie Bannon
USA
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UK
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