"MRS. MINIVER"
Sir-Judging by "G.M.’s" former criticisms, I should have imagined (had he dared), he could have pulled the film Mrs. Miniver to pieces. It was a poor film, and would only rank as secondfeature stuff in England. Its atmosphere was most un-English, and its players intensely American, all acting according to the usual Hollywood stereotyped tradition. The awful precosity of the two children, and the stupid behaviour of the maid, hardly bear thinking about. The only player with any merit or individuality was Dame May Whitty. She gave a splendid performance, typically portraying the old English aristocracy as we know it. May it never die out.-
SHALDA FREEMAN
(Mairangi Bay).
(Our correspondent may now have read ine English critics said of Mrs. Miniver.ade
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 189, 5 February 1943, Page 3
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