Helmut Dantine "Mrs. Miniver" (1942), playing a downed German pilot captured by the title character (played by Greer Garson). This film was a huge hit and Dantine received much positive attention. In August 1942 Warners signed him to a new contract. The studio kept him busy in war films: "The Pied Piper" (1942); "Desperate Journey" (1942), fighting Errol Flynn; and "The Navy Comes Through" (1942). He had a sympathetic role in "Casablanca" (1942), as the young refugee trying to earn money for a visa via gambling who is helped by Humphrey Bogart. Warners begin to give Dantine more sizeable roles in "A"
George Froeschel several novels, of which some were adapted for films in the 1920s. In the 1920s he worked for the Ullstein-Verlag in Berlin. In 1936 he emigrated to the United States, where he first worked in the editorial office of Chicago's "Coronet" magazine. His efforts to find a job in Hollywood's film industry were not successful until April 1939, when Sidney Franklin of MGM engaged him as screenwriter. Froeschel won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay for the 1942 film "Mrs. Miniver" (along with co-writers James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis). George Froeschel Georg "George" Froeschel (March 9, 1891