The White cliffs of Dover

This filmed interpretation of Alice Duer Miller’s poem features an all star cast of Irene Dunn, Roddy McDowall, Van Johnson, Dame May Whitty and C. Aubrey Smith. A young woman who moves from America to England with her father, meets and falls in love with Sir John Ashwood (Alan Marshal), an English baronet. They marry, and Susan soon falls pregnant, but tragically loses her husband to World War I before her son, John junior is born. Despite the prospect of isolation, she decides to remain in England (young son played by Roddy McDowall, adult son by Peter Lawford). Susan’s painful relationship with war and tragedy is relived years later when her son expresses a wish to go to war like his father. Reluctantly she agrees, as well as becoming a volunteer with the Red Cross. Once again, a mother’s love is placed in the hands of fate as the waiting game begins.