The White Cliffs of Dover
Director: Clarence Brown
Genre: Romance Film, Black-and-white, War film, Drama
Year: 1944
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language, German Language, French Language
Starring: Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Peter Lawford, Alan Marshal
The White Cliffs of Dover is a 1944 film made by Loew's and MGM. It was directed by Clarence Brown and produced by Clarence Brown and Sidney Franklin. The screenplay was by Claudine West, Jan Lustig and George Froeschel, based on the Alice Duer Miller poem titled The White Cliffs with additional poetry by Robert Nathan.
American newspaper publisher Hiram P. Dunn and his daughter Susan visit England, intending to stay a week. She meets and falls in love with an army officer, Sir John Ashwood. The honeymoon is cut short as World War I breaks out. John goes to war in France, sees his bride only once more, and is then killed in action near the end of the war. In the meantime, Lady Susan gives birth to a son, also named John (although the eldest son has always traditionally been named Percy), who never knew his father.
Susan and John continue to live in the family manor house with Lady Jean, Sir John's Mother. After she dies, they decide to sell the manor and return to America, but young John is in love with Betsy Kenney (Elizabeth Taylor), the daughter of tenant farmers on the estate. They decide to stay after all.
As World War II begins, John, after Eton and Sandhurst, joins his
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