My Son, My Son!

My Son, My Son! is a 1940 American drama film directed by Charles Vidor and based on a novel by the same name written by Howard Spring. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by John DuCasse Schulze.

Plot

Cast

Madeleine Carroll as Livia Vaynol Brian Aherne as William Essex Louis Hayward as Oliver Essex Laraine Day as Maeve O'Riorden Henry Hull as Dermot O'Riorden Josephine Hutchinson as Nellie Moscrop Essex Sophie Stewart as Sheila O'Riorden Bruce Lester as Rory O'Riorden Scotty Beckett as Oliver as a Child Brenda Henderson as Maeve as a Child Teddy Moorwood as Rory as a Child May Beatty as Annie Stanley Logan as The Colonel Lionel Belmore as Mr. Moscrop Mary Gordon as Mrs. Mulvaney David Clyde as Drayman Vesey O'Davoren as Parker, Butler Pat Flaherty as Joe Baxter Victor Kendall as Pogson Mary Field as Betsy, First Maid Audrey Manners as Second Maid Sibyl Harris as First Landlady Connie Leon as Second Landlady

Production Edward Small bought the film rights to the book for $50,000"Marshall Will Play in 'My Son, My Son': Europe Lures Notables Students Belittle Stars Tommy Kelly Assigned Ann Sheridan's New Role" Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times March 28, 1939: 15. 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

My Son, My Son! on Lux Radio Theater: March 11, 1940