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According to MGM records the film earned only $ 990,000 in the US and Canada but performed better elsewhere, making $ 1.23 million. However this was not enough to recover the large budget of over $ 3 million, and the film recorded a loss of $ 2.3 million, making it MGM's most costly flop of 1950.
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Clem is now restless and dissatisfied; he successfully applies for a design contract in Brazil. But Kay, unknown to him, has developed a major cardiac condition and has one year at most to live. Despite this, she persuades the general to return to his wife, leaving Judy free to marry Tom.
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The wedding goes ahead. Clem decides to stay in London and brings Tom into his architectural practice, and soon after he's made aware of his wife's illness. Satisfied that her family are safe and happy, Kay dies.
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was almost let go due to British film union regulations, but was kept on after lead actress Greer Garson threatened to quit the production.
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No mention is made of the eldest Miniver son Vincent who appeared in the earlier film, possibly because Greer Garson and
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as Clem and Judy return home from war service and Toby returns from a foster family in the United States.
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The story, told partly in flashback and narrated by Clem Miniver, commences on
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Judy, a corporal driver, is loved by Tom Foley, a captain in the
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return in their original roles. Also in the cast were
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H.C. Potter
George Froeschel
Ronald Millar
Mrs. Miniver
Jan Struther
Sidney Franklin
Greer Garson
Walter Pidgeon
John Hodiak
Leo Genn
Cathy O'Donnell
Reginald Owen
Henry Wilcoxon
Joseph Ruttenberg
Frank Clarke
Harold F. Kress
Miklós Rózsa
Herbert Stothart
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Loew's, Inc.
drama film
Mrs. Miniver
MGM
Greer Garson
Walter Pidgeon
H.C. Potter
Sidney Franklin
screenplay
George Froeschel

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