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
My Sister Eileen (1942 film) "Mrs. Miniver". Aherne, Russell, and Blair reprised their parts on the "Lux Radio Theater" adaptation of "My Sister Eileen" on July 5, 1943 and again on "The Screen Guild Theater" adaptation on October 18, 1943. On May 18, 1946, "My Sister Eileen" was again adapted as a radio play on "Academy Award Theater", in recognition of Russell's Academy Award nomination. Russell and Blair reprised their parts. My Sister Eileen (1942 film) My Sister Eileen is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne and Janet Blair. The screenplay by Joseph A. Fields and