How Green Was My Valley (film)
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| Directed by | John Ford |
| Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Screenplay by | Philip Dunne |
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How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn |
| Starring |
Walter Pidgeon Maureen O'Hara Anna Lee Donald Crisp Roddy McDowall Sara Allgood |
| Narrated by | Irving Pichel |
| Music by | Alfred Newman |
| Cinematography | Arthur C. Miller |
| Edited by | James B. Clark |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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118 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Welsh |
| Budget | $800,000 |
| Box office | $2.8 million (US rentals) |
How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film directed by John Ford. The movie, based on the 1939 Richard Llewellyn novel of the same name, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and scripted by Philip Dunne. The movie features Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and Roddy McDowall. It was nominated for ten Academy Awards, famously beating Citizen Kane for Best Picture along with winning Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Supporting Actor.
The movie tells of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family living in the heart of the South Wales Valleys during the 19th century. The story chronicles life in the South Wales coalfields, the loss of that way of life and its effects on the family. The fictional village in the movie is based on Gilfach Goch; Llewellyn spent many summers there visiting his grandfather, and it served as the inspiration for the novel. In 1990, the movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved How Green Was My Valley during 1998.
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