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Director
  
Charles Vidor

Story by
  
Howard Spring

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6.4/10
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Genre
  
Drama, Romance

Producer
  
Edward Small

Country
  
United States

My Son, My Son! (film) movie poster
Release date
  
March 22, 1940 (1940-03-22)

Based on
  
novel by Howard Spring

Writer
  
Howard Spring (novel), Lenore J. Coffee (screenplay)

Cast
  
Madeleine Carroll
,
Brian Aherne
,
Louis Hayward
,
Laraine Day
,
Henry Hull

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William Essex (Brian Aherne) wants his son Oliver (Louis Hayward) to have the advantages he didnt have growing up and perhaps thats part of the problem. Instead of being grateful for his resources, Oliver squanders them, committing petty crime, deceiving others and doing whatever he can to torment his indulgent father. But William reaches the limit of his parental benevolence when Oliver makes a play for Livia Vaynol (Madeleine Carroll), the woman William himself loves.

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

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

§Cast

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

    • Similar Movies

    Madame X (1929). Condemned Women (1938). The Duke of West Point (1938). Journey into Light (1951). Madeleine Carroll appears in My Son - My Son! and The World Moves On.

    §Production

    Edward Small bought film rights to the book for $50,000 in part because he thought it would make an ideal vehicle for his new star, Louis Hayward.

    Plans to make the film were temporarily halted due to World War II.

    References

    My Son, My Son! (film) Wikipedia
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    My Son, My Son! (film) IMDb My Son, My Son! (film) themoviedb.org