''My Son, My Son!'' is a 1940 American
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
Charles Vidor and based on a
novel by the same name written by
Howard Spring. It was nominated for an
Academy Award
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for
Best Art Direction by
John DuCasse Schulze.
Plot
Cast
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Madeleine Carroll as Livia Vaynol
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Brian Aherne as William Essex
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Louis Hayward as Oliver Essex
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Laraine Day as Maeve O'Riorden
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Henry Hull
Henry Watterson Hull (October 3, 1890 – March 8, 1977) was an American character actor who played the lead in Universal Pictures's ''Werewolf of London'' (1935). For most of his career, he was a lead actor on stage and a character actor on scr ...
as Dermot O'Riorden
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Josephine Hutchinson
Josephine Hutchinson (October 12, 1903 – June 4, 1998) was an American actress. She acted in dozens of theater plays and dozens of films, including ''Son of Frankenstein'' and ''North by Northwest'', as well as numerous television appearances ...
as Nellie Moscrop Essex
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Sophie Stewart as Sheila O'Riorden
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Bruce Lester
Bruce Lester (6 June 1912 – 13 June 2008) was a South African-born English film actor with over 60 screen appearances to his credit between 1934 and his retirement from acting in 1958. Lester's career divided into two distinct periods. Betwe ...
as Rory O'Riorden
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Scotty Beckett as Oliver as a Child
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Brenda Henderson as Maeve as a Child
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Teddy Moorwood as Rory as a Child
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May Beatty as Annie
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Stanley Logan as The Colonel
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Lionel Belmore as Mr. Moscrop
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Mary Gordon as Mrs. Mulvaney
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David Clyde
David Eugene Clyde (born April 22, 1955) is an American former left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher who played for five seasons with the Texas Rangers (1973–1975) and Cleveland Indians (1978–1979). He is noted for his once promising ...
as Drayman
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Vesey O'Davoren as Parker, Butler
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Pat Flaherty as Joe Baxter
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Victor Kendall as Pogson
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Mary Field as Betsy, First Maid
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Audrey Manners as Second Maid
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Sibyl Harris as First Landlady
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Connie Leon
Connie Leon (1881 in Cheshire, England – 10 May 1955 in Los Angeles, California) was an English singer, dancer and film actress.
Career
Between 1896 and 1909, Connie Leon was popular in provincial theatre as a singer, dancer and comedian, incl ...
as Second Landlady
Production
Edward Small bought the film rights to the book for $50,000 and believed that the story could provide an ideal vehicle for his new star
Louis Hayward.
Lenore Coffee, who wrote the script, said that Small "was a rather ignorant man, but he had inklings and hunches ... I liked him very much. He had a hunch about ''My Son, My Son!'' and he bought it. He had never bought an elegant story before."
Production of the film was temporarily halted with the outbreak of World War II.
["PRODUCERS GIRD FOR WAR: The Cinema Capital Contemplates Its Probable Effects Upon the Industry" by DOUGLAS W. CHURCHILL. ''New York Times'' September 10, 1939: X3.]
References
External links
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''My Son, My Son!''on
Lux Radio Theater: March 11, 1940
{{DEFAULTSORT:My Son My Son
1940 films
1940 drama films
American drama films
American black-and-white films
1940s English-language films
Films directed by Charles Vidor
Films produced by Edward Small
1940s American films
United Artists films
category:Films based on British novels
English-language drama films