Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein would help the new Allies, Britain and America, to understand each other. He read and advised on early drafts of "Mrs. Miniver" (1942), the film starring Greer Garson as the heroic mother of a wartorn British family, which MGM made after a meeting of MGM executives with Bernstein in Hollywood. As the invasion of France loomed, Bernstein brought his friend Alfred Hitchcock back from Hollywood to Britain to work on two short documentary films for the post-invasion French audience. As the war wound to its close, Bernstein heard the first reports of extermination camps, visited Belsen himself, and was determined
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942 film) 1938. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942 film) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1942 American comedy-drama film starring Fay Bainter, directed by Ralph Murphy, and based on the 1901 novel of the same name by Alice Hegan Rice. The 1942 version is the fourth film adaption of the novel. The first film version was released in 1914, starring Blanche Chapman. The second version was released in 1919 and stars Marguerite Clark, while the third version was released in 1934 and stars Pauline Lord. The book was also adapted into a radio series which aired from 1935