The White Cliffs of Dover (MOD)

The White Cliffs of Dover (MOD)Susan Ashwood (Irene Dunne) lost her husband to one war. Will she lose her son to another? Radiating elegance and warmth, Dunne gives "one of her finest performances" (The Movie Guide) in this heartfelt romantic drama as an American who becomes the bride of a handsome British aristocrat (Alan Marshal), only to see him march off to the Great War and never return. Years later, England plunges into World War II. and the past threatens to repeat itself

because the temptress is really his wife in disguise

basing the film partly on his own climb to fame and proving that 35 years in show biz had taught him exactly how to sell a song

it's never business as usual

To his surprise

daughter Judy

turns sexuality into power

The sparkling Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II-Otto Harbach score includes Who

Settings for this narrated

singing Happy Birthday to himself

Martin Milner

and a 25-foot-tall human beast with a single eye

" the subject of his gleefully satiric S