SOUND FEATURES: THE HOWARDS OF VIRGINIA (1940)
CREDITS
Released: September 19, 1940
Production Company: Frank Lloyd Productions
Featured Cast: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Richard Carlson, Paul Kelly, Irving Bacon, Elisabeth Risdon, Anne Revere, Tom Drake, Phil Taylor, Rita Quigley, Libby Taylor, Richard Gaines, George Houston, Ralph Byrd, Dickie Jones, Buster Phelps, Wade Boteler, Mary Field, Roy Gordon, Charles Francis, Rafael Alcayde, Conrad Binyon, Bobby Callahan, Lane Chandler, Peter Cushing, Vernon Downing, Eddie Dunn, Sarah Edwards, Tom Fadden, Joe Farey, Leon Farey, John Gallaudet, Ralph Gilliam, Jesse Graves, J. Franklin Harrison, June Hedin, Leyland Hodgson, J. Anthony Hughes, Brandon Hurst, Olaf Hytten, Boyd Irwin, Claude King, Alan Ladd, Leonard Lawrence, Richard Lyon, Terry Moore, Jason Robards Sr., Virginia Sale, Pat Somerset, Emmett Vogan, Eddy Waller, Dick Wessel, James Westerfield, Dan White
Director: Frank Lloyd
Producer: Frank Lloyd
Associate Producer: Jack H. Skirball
Associate Director: James Curtis Havens
Cinematography: Bert Glennon
Editor: Paul Weatherwax
Assistant Director: William Tummel
Art Director: John B. Goodman
Interior Decorator: Howard Bristol
Composer: Richard Hageman
Sound Recordist: William A. Wilmarth
Sound: Jack Whitney
Orchestrator: Lucien Cailliet, Herman Hand
Montage Effects: Slavko Vorkapich
Writers: Elizabeth Page (novel “The Tree of Liberty”),
Sidney Buchman (screenplay)
STORY
Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war.
AWARDS
Nominated for 2 Oscar Awards.
1941
Academy Awards, USA
Nominated, Oscar
Best Sound, Recording
Jack Whitney (general service ssd)
Nominated, Oscar
Best Music, Original Score
Richard Hageman
TECH
Runtime 1 hr 56 min (116 min)
Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Color Black and White
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Film Length (13 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm