Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Deanna Durbin | ... | Ruth Kirke Holliday | |
Edmond O'Brien | ... | Tom Holliday | |
Barry Fitzgerald | ... | Timothy Blake | |
Arthur Treacher | ... | Henderson | |
Harry Davenport | ... | Commodore Thomas Spencer Holliday | |
Grant Mitchell | ... | Edgar Holliday | |
Frieda Inescort | ... | Karen Holliday | |
Elisabeth Risdon | ... | Louise Holliday | |
Jonathan Hale | ... | Ferguson | |
Esther Dale | ... | Lucy | |
Gus Schilling | ... | Jeff Adams | |
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John F. Hamilton | ... | Dr. Kirke (as J. Frank Hamilton) |
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Christopher Severn | ... | Orphan |
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Yvonne Severn | ... | Orphan |
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Vido Rich | ... | Orphan |
Ruth Kirke (Deanna Durbin), an American school teacher at a missionary in China, is smuggling nine recently-orphaned Chinese children back to the United States. En route, the ship on which they are traveling is torpedoed and, after being rescued , the only way the children can get into America , is by lying that her husband, who has promised to adopt the children, is the missing owner of the torpedoed ship. Multile complications arise. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Sentimental tale of a young schoolteacher in war-torn China who sets out to rescue war orphans and take them to America. As in all of Deanna's movies, the plot thickens when she tells a little white lie that has her posing as the widow of a wealthy sailor. Barry Fitzgerald is in on her little scheme and Edmond O'Brien, as the old Commodore's grandson, is soon infatuated with her. It's a sentimental story and, unfortunately, none of it rings true but somehow Durbin overcomes the inadequacies of a weak script and tosses off her songs with grace and authority, as always.
Nominated for Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy picture in 1943.