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	Mrs. Miniver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Miniver was a fictional English housewife created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns for The Times, later adapted into a movie.
		Miniver was produced by MGM in 1942 with Greer Garson in the leading role and William Wyler directing.
		Miniver is still presented as living a comfortable life at a house called Starlings; not in inner London but in an outer suburb along the river Thames.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mrs._Miniver (625 words)

	The Film Tribune - Mrs. Miniver (1942) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Miniver, being the owner of a small boat, receives a telephone call in the middle of the night, asking him to go by boat to Ramsgate, a coastal city at the mouth of the Thames river.
		For example, when Clem Miniver is awakened in the middle of the night and asked to bring his boat to Ramsgate, and ultimately to Dunkirk, the further East he goes, the more boats gather, therefore symbolically showing that only by uniting will the Allied nations and their populations be victorious.
		Miniver" would not be considered a perfect or credible film by the standards of today, in 1942, it was considered of vital importance to the war effort, because of its open patriotism and its consequent positive effect on morale.
	www.filmtribune.com /miniver.html (2504 words)

	Mrs. Miniver (1942) at Reel Classics
		MINIVER was "more powerful to the war effort than the combined work of six military divisions."(*3) True or not, it remains one of the most important and socially significant films in American history.
		MINIVER a pro-British war film, the screenwriters (with the help of director William Wyler) extrapolated Struther's book, expanding on her story by carrying her characters forward into a new and challenging setting.
		MINIVER tackles the issue of social class head-on by differentiating between the various classes of characters (through occupation, dress and manner of speech) while at the same time demonstrating the compassion and sympathy of purpose that exists between them despite their differences.
	reelclassics.com /Movies/Miniver/miniver.htm (782 words)

	Mrs. Miniver.
		Miniver decides, is their unevenness: "like those gramophone records with a superb tune on one side and a negligible fill-up on the other which you had to take whether you wanted it or not".
		Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between August and October, between the heaviness of late summer and the sparkle of early autumn, between the ending of an old phase and the beginning of a fresh one.
		Miniver was afraid that for once in a way he was being over-stern; but when he leant back in his chair to re-read the letter she saw that it was profusely illustrated down the margin with his own particular brand of pin-man picture: so she knew it was all right.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/struther/miniver/miniver.html (20425 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Mrs. Miniver review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Miniver is a film that, today, is easy to dismiss yet still impossible to resist.
		Miniver does only what she can, holding onto her son as the weapons of mass destruction are being dropped over England.
		Miniver looks quite good, and is presented here in a remastered 1.33:1 transfer representing its original theatrical aspect ratio.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_8/mrsminiver.html (640 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Mrs. Miniver
		Kay Miniver (a glowingly beautiful Greer Garson), is a middle-class Englishwoman whose tranquil domestic existence is torn to shreds by the winds of war.
		Miniver is an unabashedly propagandistic work; though released after Pearl Harbor, the film did much to bolster American public sentiment in support of the war, and Winston Churchill praised it as having done more for the war effort than a flotilla of destroyers.
		Miniver sitting in a bomb shelter, reading from Alice in Wonderland, and reminiscing about the simple joys of childhood, and in unremarked but powerful images like the village church, which by the end of the film is a bombed-out husk.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/mrsminiver.php (995 words)

	Mrs. Miniver
		Miniver talk about it, World War II was all about how the stupid Germans interrupted the local flower show just as a big upset occurred when the flower raised by the stationmaster beat ten time winner Lady Beldon.
		Miniver in question and apparently she's supposed to represent the sturdy British wife that perseveres no matter how tough things become on the homefront, even if that means that she won't be able to buy anymore expensive ugly hats.
		Miniver's new car (man, is he going to be pissed!) and kills her, but not before a rather extensive death scene that finally concludes on Mrs.
	monsterhunter.coldfusionvideo.com /Mrs_Miniver.html (1705 words)

	Mrs. Miniver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although the was still officially neutral the tribulations of Miniver family as war with Nazi Germany approached engaged the sympathy of the public sufficiently that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt credited it for hastening America's involvement the war and Winston Churchill claimed that it had done more the Allied cause than a flotilla of
		To this end the status enjoyed by the Miniver family in print version was downgraded and increased attention given to the erosion of class barriers the pressures of wartime.
		Miniver is a biography of Jan Struther, the author of the 1940's classic, Mrs.
	www.freeglossary.com /Mrs_Miniver (803 words)

	REELINSIDER.COM - MRS. MINIVER (1942)
		Miniver keeps her family and close-knit community together as their homes and town buildings are bombed one by one into misshapen ruin.
		Miniver ends up as the binder of affection and support for all those around her until one night there is a terrible firefight in the sky.
		Miniver seems like a confident picture about the necessity of waging World War II, it was produced in a moment when this confidence and potential for success, in both Axis and Allied war rooms, was little more than a dream for military tacticians looking for an edge over their enemies the next country over.
	www.reelinsider.com /miniver.html (1576 words)

	MRS. MINIVER
		Miniver is a rare war film, one that focuses on those left at home and their struggle to survive the onslaught of the enemy and the anxiety of impending loss.
		Kay Miniver takes each day as it comes, battling hard to keep her family safe and happy despite the chaos around them.
		MINIVER is one of the best of its genre, telling an even-handed, complex story despite its propagandist backbone.
	www.crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsM/f_mrs_miniver.html (572 words)

	Mrs. Miniver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Miniver was a fictional English housewife created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns for The Times.
		Miniver, expanding on the character's wartime experiences, that were published in later editions.
		Miniver Essay on the film with pictures and quotes.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Mrs._Miniver.html (497 words)

	Mrs. Miniver (1942)
		Kay Miniver doesn't fly a Spitfire in dogfights over London or ply the North Sea in a battleship, but she's doing her all for wartime England.
		Miniver starts in the summer of 1939 and follows the experiences of a British middle-class family as the nation girds for war.
		For one, the Minivers spend a little beyond their means, which some interpret as an attempt to promote themselves as being a higher status.
	www.dvdmg.com /mrsminiver.shtml (1505 words)

	The Flick Filosopher \| Mrs. Miniver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Miniver is a strikingly unsentimental account of the theft of England's innocence in the early days of WWII.
		Miniver was such potent propaganda for Britain that it influenced the American decision to join the war.
		Miniver couldn't have influenced the American decision to join the war as it was released after U.S. troops had already been sent to Europe.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /oscars/bestpix/mrsminiver.shtml (583 words)

	Mrs. Miniver, 1942
		Miniver was a 'propaganda worth a thousand battleships.' Hollywood was cashing in on the war effort big time.
		Miniver 'provided a beacon of morale despite its false sentiment, absurd rural types and melodramatic situations.
		Miniver are horrified when they witness the crash of a British war plane.
	www.angelfire.com /film/oscars/mrsminiver.htm (562 words)

	1940 books - Mrs Miniver
		Having seen the well known film "Mrs Miniver" I was keen to get started and when I finally managed to read it I found I could not put it down, quickly finishing it in a couple of days.
		The book "Mrs Miniver" was written as a column in The Times during the late 1930's and was extremely popular.
		As 'Mrs Miniver' was already a household name with the public here in Britain one can imagine how this film proved very popular, but those who remember the film may be a little disappointed with the book as it does not include the actual war.
	www.1940.co.uk /history/books/miniver/miniver.htm (257 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - William Wyler - 1942 - Mrs. Miniver Movies Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mrs Miniver is the story of a respectable country English family, members of what the English called "middle class," but we would call rich, with several servants and a grand manor house.
		Mrs Miniver may use its title character as what's right with Britain--courage, strength, determination, and patriotism--but it ascribes to the lady all the commonly accepted attributes and faults of her sex.
		Mrs Miniver ends in a scene and a speech that'll have you sobbing and cheering all at once.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10000746 (2542 words)

	Mrs. Miniver (1942)
		Miniver being voted the best film of all time, but age brings wisdom (supposedly) and nowadays I can appreciate that the film is a terrific one indeed - although still not the greatest film of all time.
		Kay Miniver (Greer Garson) is enjoying her upper middle class life in the country south of London, with the obligatory shopping trips to London.
		This happens during the visit to the Miniver household of one Carol Beldon (Teresa Wright), granddaughter of the head of the local gentry, Lady Beldon (Dame May Whitty), and thus the notional head of that class system in their village.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=4402 (3375 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Mrs. Miniver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Miniver was a World War II propaganda film that, early in the war, helped build and sustain public support for the United States' involvement in Europe.
		Miniver" is one of those non-factual, war time propaganda tear jerkers that has proven itself to be enduring and immensely entertaining.
		Miniver (Greer Garson) the atypical English housewife quietly enduring the hardships of war and capturing a downed Nazi pilot in her begonias in the process.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00011D1OU (1089 words)

	Mrs. Miniver (1942) at Reel Classics: Dialogue: Alice in Wonderland
		The scene in which the Miniver family is huddled together in their bomb shelter during an air raid and Mrs.
		Miniver (Greer Garson) reads young Toby and Judy to sleep with Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, is one of the movie's most powerful.
		Miniver goes back and rereads aloud to herself and her husband (Walter Pidgeon) after the children are asleep.
	www.reelclassics.com /Movies/Miniver/miniver-dialog2.htm (150 words)

	Mrs. Miniver - DVD
		Miniver's college-age son (Richard Ney) and the upper-crust Carol (Best Supporting Actress Teresa Wright) is filled with inherent drama--as the war speeds up their young love, it also has the potential to doom it.
		Carson because I have always thought she was one of the ten best actresses in the Century, so I just simply recommend in case of you have missed it, this unusual and superb masterpieces of the Decade.
		Miniver is a wonderful testament to the fortitude and sacrifices of the British people at their darkest hour.
	www.wensstyle.com /product/B00011D1OU.html (1163 words)

	Gerald Peary - film reviews - Mrs. Miniver
		Miniver (1942), at the Harvard Film Archive on April 16 for a "Film and the Third Reich" series, might take the booby-prize cake as the most bloated and insufferable Oscar winner.
		Why, the first half hour of this 134-minute opus is about dear Kay Miniver (patrician Greer Garson, another Oscar winner), already under a poofy feathered hat, buying another way expensive one and then fretting how to tell her husband.
		Miniver fights the war at home, when a wounded Nazi flyer lands in her flowered back yard.
	www.geraldpeary.com /reviews/mno/mrs-miniver.html (331 words)

	Mrs. Miniver on DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Miniver, a middle-class British housewife whose strength holds her family together as World War II literally hits their home.
		Walter Pidgeon as her architect husband seems to be the prototype for future TV dads in this affecting portrait of love -- familial and romantic -- during war.
		Miniver's college-age son (Richard Ney) and the upper-crust Carol (Best Supporting Actress Teresa Wright) is filled with inherent drama -- as the war speeds up their young love, it also has the potential to doom it.
	www.crimsonbird.com /cgi-bin/a.cgi?j=B00011D1OU (195 words)

	Amazon.com: Video: Mrs. Miniver (1942) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Miniver", was without a doubt the most famous film to come out of the World War Two period and provided inspiration and courage to countless people across the globe either already suffering the effects of war or living in fear of it possibly coming.
		Miniver was responsible for making this pair the most popular screen team of the 1940's.
		Miniver has a terrifying confrontation with a downed German pilot where she is held at gun point in her kitchen.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000FCYZ?v=glance (1693 words)

	Mrs. Miniver News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Miniver News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Norma Shearer was too vain to accept a part calling for her to have grown children, so she rejected the title role in "Mrs.
		Miniver." Greer Garson has no such qualms and grabbed the part, winning the Academy...
	rss.topix.net /movies/mrs-miniver (494 words)

	Greer Garson at Reel Classics: Biography
		She won her only Oscar as the title character in the patriotic home-front drama and Best Picture of 1942, William Wyler's MRS MINIVER, which became her most famous role and guaranteed her future typecasting as women of noble, intelligent fortitude.
		MINIVER, Garson married actor Richard Ney (almost fifteen years her junior) who had played her son in the film, but they were divorced in 1947.
		MINVER (1942), was also a personal disappointment to Garson who had contributed ideas to the screenplay and in which she had given one of the best performances of her career.
	www.reelclassics.com /Actresses/Greer/greer-bio.htm (1102 words)

	Amazon.com: Video: Mrs. Miniver (1942) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		MINIVER was released in 1942, England and Germany had been at war for nearly three years and the British armed forces were no lock to win.
		Mrs Miniver from 1942 was one of the first of these movies & perhaps just a little better.
		Ney who plays Miniver's son (in real life about to marry his mother) and little Christopher Severn, her other son, are straight up and down Americans, but they pull off the accent perfectly.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0792837126?v=glance (2575 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Mrs. Miniver (Virago Modern Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mrs Miniver enchanted the public with her sympathy and affectionate humour, capturing ordinary lives and values now darkened by war.
		I think that Mrs Miniver's life was as near as can be to Jan Struther's own - both English, middle-class, married with three children, living in London during the outbreak of war in a comfortable home with servants.
		Mrs Miniver has a very particular way of looking at life - perceptive, funny, generous and wise.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1853810908 (652 words)

	Title: "Mrs. Miniver" - Topics: World/England; World/WW II
		The Minivers, an otherwise happy and well adjusted English middle class family, must learn to live under daily bombardment by German planes.
		Miniver joins hundreds of boat owners summoned to Dunkirk to help evacuate British soldiers from the mainland.
		Miniver" is one of the best Allied propaganda films of World War II.
	www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/mrs-miniver.html (478 words)

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