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
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941 film) "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" was the last film released before Lombard's death. "To Be or Not to Be" (1942) was her final film, released two months after she died in an aircraft crash while on a War Bond tour. The film is one of the earliest to show a pizzeria and was supposed to contain sounds of a toilet flushing, which was altered to banging pipes for purposes of censorship. "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" was a hit and made a profit of $750,000. The review in "The New York Times" described the film thus: "Despite the performances, despite the endless