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Since You Went Away is a 1944 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 distributed by United Artists
United Artists

United Artists Entertainment LLC is an United States film studio. The current United Artists was formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company....
. It was directed by John Cromwell
John Cromwell (director)

Elwood Dager John Cromwell was an United States Film director, actor and Film producer....
 and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick

David O. Selznick, born David Selznick , was one of the iconic Hollywood film producer of the Golden Age. He is best known for producing the epic blockbuster Gone with the Wind which earned him an Academy Awards for Best Picture....
 from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder. The music score was by Max Steiner
Max Steiner

Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
 and the cinematography by Stanley Cortez
Stanley Cortez

Stanley Cortez, A.S.C. was an United States cinematography. He worked on over seventy films, including Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons , Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter , Nunnally Johnson's The Three Faces of Eve , and Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor and The Naked Kiss ....
, Lee Garmes
Lee Garmes

Lee Garmes, A.S.C. was an award-winning United States cinematographer. During his career, he worked with directors Howard Hawks, Max Ophuls, Josef von Sternberg, Alfred Hitchcock, King Vidor, Nicholas Ray and Henry Hathaway, whom he had met as a young man when the two first came to Hollywood in the silent film....
, George Barnes
George Barnes (cinematographer)

George S. Barnes, A.S.C. was an United States cinematographer from the era of silent films to the early 1950s. Over the course of his career, he was nominated for an Academy Awards five times, including his work on The Devil Dancer with Gilda Gray and Clive Brook....
 (uncredited) and Robert Bruce
Robert Bruce

The following have been known as Robert Bruce:Those belonging to the Bruce family of Scotland:Note: There are currently discrepancies between this list and the actual article contents....
 (uncredited).

The film stars Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert was a French-born American stage and film actress.Born in Saint-Mand?, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway theater productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures....
, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple

Shirley Jane Temple is an Academy Award-winning actress and tap dancer, most famous for being an iconic United States child actress of the 1930s, who enjoyed a notable career as a diplomat as an adult....
 and Joseph Cotten
Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cheshire Cotten was an American actor of stage and film. He was perhaps best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles, which included Citizen Kane, The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons and Journey into Fear , which Cotten wrote, and for his work with Alfred Hitchcock in Shadow of a Doubt....
 with Monty Woolley
Monty Woolley

Monty Woolley was an United States actor....
, Robert Walker
Robert Hudson Walker

Robert Hudson Walker was an United States actor....
, Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
, Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel was an United States actress and the first black performer to win an Academy Awards. She won the award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ....
, Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the t...
, Guy Madison
Guy Madison

Guy Madison was an United States film and television actor....
, Craig Stevens
Craig Stevens (actor)

Craig Stevens was an United States motion picture and television actor....
, Janelle Johnson
Janelle Johnson

Janelle Johnson was an actress in films of the 1940s. She married actor George Dolenz and was the mother of Micky Dolenz of the 1960s pop group the Monkees....
, Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn

Keenan Wynn was an United States character actor and member of a well-known show business family. His bristling mustache and expressive face were his stock in trade as an actor....
, Florence Bates
Florence Bates

Florence Bates was an United States character actress who frequently portrayed a grande dame in her many films.Born Florence Rabe in San Antonio, Texas, the second child of Jewish immigrants, Bates showed musical talent as a child, but a hand injury inhibited her from continuing her piano studies....
, and Alla Nazimova
Alla Nazimova

Alla Nazimova , born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon was a Russian/United States theatre and film actress, scriptwriter, and Film producer....
.

The film tells the story of how a woman copes at home while her husband has gone off to fight in World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
.

The farewell scene between Jones and Walker at the railway station is often cited as a fine example of a Hollywood tearjerker
Tearjerker

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 scene.






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Since You Went Away is a 1944 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 distributed by United Artists
United Artists

United Artists Entertainment LLC is an United States film studio. The current United Artists was formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company....
. It was directed by John Cromwell
John Cromwell (director)

Elwood Dager John Cromwell was an United States Film director, actor and Film producer....
 and adapted and produced by David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick

David O. Selznick, born David Selznick , was one of the iconic Hollywood film producer of the Golden Age. He is best known for producing the epic blockbuster Gone with the Wind which earned him an Academy Awards for Best Picture....
 from the novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder. The music score was by Max Steiner
Max Steiner

Max Steiner was an Academy Award-winning Austrian-United States composer of music for theatre productions and films. He probably is known best for the Film score he composed for the classic Gone with the Wind and for the score and hugely popular theme song for the film A Summer Place ....
 and the cinematography by Stanley Cortez
Stanley Cortez

Stanley Cortez, A.S.C. was an United States cinematography. He worked on over seventy films, including Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons , Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter , Nunnally Johnson's The Three Faces of Eve , and Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor and The Naked Kiss ....
, Lee Garmes
Lee Garmes

Lee Garmes, A.S.C. was an award-winning United States cinematographer. During his career, he worked with directors Howard Hawks, Max Ophuls, Josef von Sternberg, Alfred Hitchcock, King Vidor, Nicholas Ray and Henry Hathaway, whom he had met as a young man when the two first came to Hollywood in the silent film....
, George Barnes
George Barnes (cinematographer)

George S. Barnes, A.S.C. was an United States cinematographer from the era of silent films to the early 1950s. Over the course of his career, he was nominated for an Academy Awards five times, including his work on The Devil Dancer with Gilda Gray and Clive Brook....
 (uncredited) and Robert Bruce
Robert Bruce

The following have been known as Robert Bruce:Those belonging to the Bruce family of Scotland:Note: There are currently discrepancies between this list and the actual article contents....
 (uncredited).

The film stars Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert was a French-born American stage and film actress.Born in Saint-Mand?, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway theater productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures....
, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple

Shirley Jane Temple is an Academy Award-winning actress and tap dancer, most famous for being an iconic United States child actress of the 1930s, who enjoyed a notable career as a diplomat as an adult....
 and Joseph Cotten
Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cheshire Cotten was an American actor of stage and film. He was perhaps best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles, which included Citizen Kane, The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons and Journey into Fear , which Cotten wrote, and for his work with Alfred Hitchcock in Shadow of a Doubt....
 with Monty Woolley
Monty Woolley

Monty Woolley was an United States actor....
, Robert Walker
Robert Hudson Walker

Robert Hudson Walker was an United States actor....
, Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
, Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel was an United States actress and the first black performer to win an Academy Awards. She won the award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ....
, Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the t...
, Guy Madison
Guy Madison

Guy Madison was an United States film and television actor....
, Craig Stevens
Craig Stevens (actor)

Craig Stevens was an United States motion picture and television actor....
, Janelle Johnson
Janelle Johnson

Janelle Johnson was an actress in films of the 1940s. She married actor George Dolenz and was the mother of Micky Dolenz of the 1960s pop group the Monkees....
, Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn

Keenan Wynn was an United States character actor and member of a well-known show business family. His bristling mustache and expressive face were his stock in trade as an actor....
, Florence Bates
Florence Bates

Florence Bates was an United States character actress who frequently portrayed a grande dame in her many films.Born Florence Rabe in San Antonio, Texas, the second child of Jewish immigrants, Bates showed musical talent as a child, but a hand injury inhibited her from continuing her piano studies....
, and Alla Nazimova
Alla Nazimova

Alla Nazimova , born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon was a Russian/United States theatre and film actress, scriptwriter, and Film producer....
.

The film tells the story of how a woman copes at home while her husband has gone off to fight in World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
.

The farewell scene between Jones and Walker at the railway station is often cited as a fine example of a Hollywood tearjerker
Tearjerker

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 scene. Jones and Walker play young lovers. In real life, they were at the end of a failed marriage and divorced shortly after.

Cast

  • Claudette Colbert
    Claudette Colbert

    Claudette Colbert was a French-born American stage and film actress.Born in Saint-Mand?, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway theater productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures....
     as Mrs. Anne Hilton
  • Jennifer Jones as Jane Deborah Hilton
  • Joseph Cotten
    Joseph Cotten

    Joseph Cheshire Cotten was an American actor of stage and film. He was perhaps best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles, which included Citizen Kane, The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons and Journey into Fear , which Cotten wrote, and for his work with Alfred Hitchcock in Shadow of a Doubt....
     as Lieutenant Commander Tony Willett
  • Shirley Temple
    Shirley Temple

    Shirley Jane Temple is an Academy Award-winning actress and tap dancer, most famous for being an iconic United States child actress of the 1930s, who enjoyed a notable career as a diplomat as an adult....
     as Bridget 'Brig' Hilton
  • Monty Woolley
    Monty Woolley

    Monty Woolley was an United States actor....
     as Colonel William G. Smollett
  • Lionel Barrymore
    Lionel Barrymore

    Lionel Barrymore was an United States Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film....
     as Clergyman
  • Robert Walker
    Robert Hudson Walker

    Robert Hudson Walker was an United States actor....
     as Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II
  • Hattie McDaniel
    Hattie McDaniel

    Hattie McDaniel was an United States actress and the first black performer to win an Academy Awards. She won the award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ....
     as Fidelia
  • Agnes Moorehead
    Agnes Moorehead

    Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the t...
     as Mrs. Emily Hawkins
  • Alla Nazimova
    Alla Nazimova

    Alla Nazimova , born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon was a Russian/United States theatre and film actress, scriptwriter, and Film producer....
     as Zofia Koslowska (as Nazimova)
  • Albert Bassermann
    Albert Bassermann

    Albert Bassermann was a Germany stage and screen actor.Bassermann began his acting career in 1887 in Mannheim. He then spent four years at the Hoftheater in Meiningen....
     as Dr. Sigmund Gottlieb Golden
  • Gordon Oliver as Marine Officer Seeking Room
  • Keenan Wynn
    Keenan Wynn

    Keenan Wynn was an United States character actor and member of a well-known show business family. His bristling mustache and expressive face were his stock in trade as an actor....
     as Lieutenant Solomon
  • Guy Madison
    Guy Madison

    Guy Madison was an United States film and television actor....
     as Sailor Harold E. Smith
  • Craig Stevens
    Craig Stevens (actor)

    Craig Stevens was an United States motion picture and television actor....
     as Danny Williams


Awards and nominations


It won the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Academy Award for Original Music Score

The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of Film score written specifically for the film by the submitting composer....
 (Max Steiner) and was nominated for Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
, Best Actress in a Leading Role
Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 (Claudette Colbert), Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 (Jennifer Jones), Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 (Monty Woolley), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
Academy Award for Best Cinematography

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular motion picture....
 (Lee Garmes
Lee Garmes

Lee Garmes, A.S.C. was an award-winning United States cinematographer. During his career, he worked with directors Howard Hawks, Max Ophuls, Josef von Sternberg, Alfred Hitchcock, King Vidor, Nicholas Ray and Henry Hathaway, whom he had met as a young man when the two first came to Hollywood in the silent film....
), Best Film Editing
Academy Award for Film Editing

The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. The name of this award is occasionally changed; in 2008, it was listed as the Academy Award for Achievement in Film Editing....
, Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White
Academy Award for Best Art Direction

The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in film. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art director#Film on a film....
 (Mark-Lee Kirk
Mark-Lee Kirk

Mark-Lee Kirk was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He worked on 52 films between 1936 in film and 1959 in film....
, Victor A. Gangelin
Victor A. Gangelin

Victor A. Gangelin was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for another in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
), and Best Effects, Special Effects
Academy Award for Visual Effects

The Academy Award for Visual Effects is an Academy Awards given to one film each year that shows highest achievement in visual effects.The category was called Best Special Effects when it was created in 1939....
.

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