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Bookmark this pageI Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)
Director: Herbert Wilcox
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From Time Out Film Guide
Wilcox's demonstration of Anglo-American inter-dependence has become as quaint a wartime artifact as a Mickey Mouse gas mask. Toff Morley gives up his ancestral home to house GIs; heroic officer Harrison steps aside with exquisite grace when he realises fiancée Neagle prefers USAAF sergeant Jagger. In response to such abasement Jagger sacrifices his life to prevent his bomber crashing on the film's emblematic English village (where Tory Harrison has just been defeated in a by-election). Hard to imagine how this mournful account of the 'special relationship' could have had much appeal on either side of the Atlantic, but it's helped by Harrison's languid charm, Jagger's studied amiability and Neagle's loose-limbed jitterbugging at the USO.Author: BBa
Cast & crew
Director: Herbert Wilcox
Producer: Herbert Wilcox
Cast: Anna Neagle, Rex Harrison, Dean Jagger, Robert Morley, Jane Darwell, Irene Vanbrugh full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 114 mins
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