Back كم كان واديي مخضرا (فيلم) Arabic كم كان واديى مخضرا ARZ How Green Was My Valley AST Mənim vadim yamyaşıl idi (film) Azerbaijani وادیم او قدر یاشیلدی کی (فیلم) AZB How Green Was My Valley (pelikula) BCL Колко зелена беше моята долина (филм) Bulgarian How Green Was My Valley (film) Breton Kako je bila zelena moja dolina (film) BS Que verda era la meva vall Catalan
| How Green Was My Valley | |
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| Directed by | John Ford |
| Screenplay by | Philip Dunne |
| Based on | How Green Was My Valley 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn |
| Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Arthur C. Miller |
| Edited by | James B. Clark |
| Music by | Alfred Newman |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
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Running time | 118 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | English Welsh |
| Budget | $800,000[1] |
| Box office | $2.4 million[2] |
How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 American drama film directed by John Ford, adapted by Philip Dunne from the 1939 novel of the same title by Richard Llewellyn. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and a young Roddy McDowall.
It tells the story of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family, from the point of view of the youngest child Huw, who lives with his affectionate and kind parents as well as his sister and five brothers, in the South Wales Valleys during the late Victorian era. The story chronicles life in the South Wales coalfields, the loss of that way of life and its effects on the family.
The fictional village in the film is based on Gilfach Goch,[3] where Llewellyn spent many summers visiting his grandfather, and it served as the inspiration for the novel.[3] The author had claimed that he based the book on his own personal experiences but this was found to be untrue after his death; Llewellyn was English-born and spent little time in Wales, though he was of Welsh descent.[4] Llewellyn gathered material for the novel from conversations with local mining families in Gilfach Goch.[4]
It was nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning five,[5] famously beating Citizen Kane, Sergeant York and The Maltese Falcon for Best Picture, while Ford won for Best Director, Donald Crisp for Best Supporting Actor, Arthur Miller for Best Cinematography, and Richard Day, Nathan H. Juran and Thomas Little for Best Black-and-White Art Direction-Interior Decoration. In 1990, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[6][7] The Academy Film Archive preserved How Green Was My Valley in 1998.[8]
- ^ Solomon, Aubrey (1989). Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, p. 241, ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1.
- ^ "All-time Film Rental Champs". Variety. October 15, 1990.
- ^ a b (February 7, 2009)"How Green Was My Valley", BBC Radio Wales. Retrieved August 20, 2019.
- ^ a b "Richard Llewellyn". BBC Wales. November 28, 2008. Retrieved December 25, 2011.
- ^ "How Green Was My Valley". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2009. Archived from the original on March 2, 2009. Retrieved December 13, 2008.
- ^ Gamarekian, Barbara; Times, Special To the New York (October 19, 1990). "Library of Congress Adds 25 Titles to National Film Registry (Published 1990)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
- ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
- ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive. Retrieved August 20, 2019.