How Green Was My Valley

Year:

1942

Duration:

118 min

Genres:

Drama | Family

IMDB rate:

7.8

Director:

John Ford

Awards:

Won 5 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 5 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1942-04-09

Filming Locations: 20th Century Fox Ranch, Malibu Creek State Park - 1925 Las Virgenes Road, Calabasas, California, USA

Earnings

Budget: $1,250,000

Gross: $6,000,000 (USA) ( January 1943)

Cast

Actor

Character

Gertrude Astor

Walter Pidgeon

Mr. Gruffydd

Maureen O'Hara

Angharad

Anna Lee

Bronwyn

Donald Crisp

Mr. Morgan

Roddy McDowall

Huw

John Loder

Ianto

Sara Allgood

Mrs. Morgan

Barry Fitzgerald

Cyfartha

Patric Knowles

Ivor

Welsh Singers

Themselves

Morton Lowry

Mr. Jonas

Arthur Shields

Mr. Parry

Ann E. Todd

Ceinwen

Frederick Worlock

Dr. Richards

Richard Fraser

Davy

Evan S. Evans

Gwilym

James Monks

Owen

Rhys Williams

Dai Bando

Lionel Pape

Evans

Ethel Griffies

Mrs. Nicholas

Marten Lamont

Iestyn Evans

Stewart Bair

Minor Role

Frank Baker

(uncredited)

Robert Bradford

Bit Part (uncredited)

Cyril Clare

Minor Role

Leonard Clare

Minor Role

Ruth Clifford

Village Woman (uncredited)

Phillip Dare

Bit Part (uncredited)

Edward Davies

Bit Part (uncredited)

Helen Davies

Minor Role

Minta Durfee

Bit Part (uncredited)

Herbert Evans

Postman (uncredited)

Mary Field

Eve (uncredited)

Pauline Garon

Bit Part (uncredited)

Mary Gordon

Gossiper (uncredited)

Gibson Gowland

Bit Part (uncredited)

Jack Griffiths

Minor Role

Ben Hall

Bit Part (uncredited)

Louis Jean Heydt

Miner (uncredited)

Gwilym Isaac

Minor Role

Ellis James

Minor Role

Alice A. Jones

Minor Role

Arvonia Jones

Minor Role

David Jones

Minor Role

Emlyn Jones

Minor Role

Howell A. Jones

Minor Role

Joseph T. Jones

Minor Role

Tiny Jones

Mrs. Tossel (uncredited)

Will Lewis

Minor Role

Eve March

Meillyn Lewis

Mae Marsh

Miner's Wife (uncredited)

Anne McCullough

Minor Role

Harry McKim

Child (uncredited)

Lydia McKim

Child (uncredited)

Peggy McKim

Child (uncredited)

Gomer Morgan

Minor Role

Jack Owen

Minor Role

Jack Pennick

Mine Superintendent (uncredited)

Irving Pichel

Huw Morgan as an Adult

Arthur Pritchard

Bit Part (uncredited)

David J. Reed

Minor Role

Caradac Rees

Minor Role

Lewis Rees

Minor Role

Clifford Severn

Mervyn (uncredited)

Hugh Thomas

Minor Role

John C. Thomas

Minor Role

Owen Thomas

Minor Role

Allan Watson

Bit Part (uncredited)

Jan Williams

Bit Part (uncredited)

Reese Williams

Minor Role

Robert Williams

Minor Role

Tudor Williams

Singer (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Plans to film in Wales were abandoned due to WWII; an 80-acre set was built in the Santa Monica Mountains at Brent's Crags, near Malibu. The design of the village was based on the real Cerrig Ceinnen and nearby Clyddach-cum Tawe in Wales.

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"How Green Was My Valley" famously beat Orson Welles Citizen Kane (1941) to a Best Picture Oscar.

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Roddy McDowall is credited in the opening credits as Master Roddy McDowall, but the "Master" is omitted in the end credits.

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Goofs

At Angharad's wedding, from inside the church we see Huw waiting outside, wearing a cap. When they cut to the reverse shot outside the church, the cap is gone.

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The wage reduction proclamation contains the word "labor" (American spelling) rather than "labour" as any British Islander would spell it.

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When Huw comes home after being beaten by his teacher, there is no blood or marks on his back.

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Quotes

Huw Morgan: [Narrating] Memory... Strange that the mind will forget so much of what only this moment has passed, and yet hold clear and bright the memory of what happened years ago; of men and women long since dead.

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Beth Morgan: I have come up here to tell you what I think of you all, because you are talking against my husband. You are a lot of cowards to go against him. He has done nothing against you and he never has and you know it well. How some of you, you smug-faced hypocrites, can sit in the same chapel with him I cannot tell. To say he is with the owners is not only nonsense but downright wickedness. There's one thing more I've got to say and it is this. If harm comes to my Gwilym, I will find out the men and I will kill them with my two hands. And this I will swear by God Almighty.

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Dai Bando: Position again.

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Faq

Q

How many times has the book (How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn) been adapted so far?

A

The book has twice been adapted by the BBC as a serial for television, in 1960 and 1975. It was also adapted as a Broadway musical, called 'A Time for Singing', which opened at the Broadway Theatre, New York, on May 21, 1966.

Q

How many academy award nominations did the movie have?

A

How Green Was My Valley was nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning five and beating out the other 1942 nominees, The Maltese Falcon, Sergeant York, and Citizen Kane, for Best Picture.Academy Award wins: * Best Picture - Darryl F. Zanuck. * Best Director - John Ford * Best Supporting Actor - Donald Crisp * Best B&W Cinematography - Arthur C. Miller * Best B&W Art Direction-Interior Decoration - Richard Day, Nathan H. Juran, and Thomas Little Academy Award nominations: * Best Adapted Screenplay - Philip Dunne * Best Supporting Actress - Sara Allgood * Best Film Editing - James B. Clark * Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture - Alfred Newman * Best Recording Sound - Edmund H. Hansen

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