The Late George Apley (1947)

★ 6.9 1h 33m IMDb

Bostonites George and Catherine Apley live a proper life in a social circle. However, their daughter Eleanor's love for Howard Boulton and their son John's union with Myrtle threatens their home.

The Late George Apley

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Cast

Ronald Colman
Ronald Colman as George Apley Died 1958 · Richmond, Surrey, England, UK British leading man of primarily American films, one of the great stars of the Golden Age. Raised in Ealing, the son of a successful silk merchant, he attended boarding school in Sussex, where he firs...
Peggy Cummins
Peggy Cummins as Eleanor 'Ellie' Apley Died 2017 Peggy Cummins (born Augusta Margaret Diane Fuller; 18 December 1925 – 29 December 2017) was an Irish actress, born in Wales, who is best known for her performance in Joseph H. Lewis's Gun Crazy (1950)...
Vanessa Brown
Vanessa Brown as Agnes Willing Died 1999 · Vienna, Austria Known as the bright radio "Quiz Kid," Vanessa Brown became a popular leading lady in films and stage productions of the 1940s and 1950s and later a respected writer. During her heyday as an actress, B...
Mildred Natwick
Mildred Natwick as Amelia Newcombe Died 1994 · Baltimore, Maryland, USA Mildred Natwick (June 19, 1905 – October 25, 1994) was an American stage, film and television actress. In 1967, she earned an Academy Award nomination for her supporting role in Barefoot in the Park....
Richard Haydn
Richard Haydn as Horatio Willing Died 1985 · Camberwell, London, England, UK Richard Haydn (March 10, 1905 – April 25, 1985) was an English comic actor in radio, films and television..
Nydia Westman
Nydia Westman as Jane Willing Died 1970 · New York City, New York, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nydia Eileen Westman (February 19, 1902 – May 23, 1970) was an American actress and singer of stage, screen and television. Westman's parents, Theodore and Lily...

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CinemaSerf 7/10 Jul 24, 2023
The "Apley" family have been part of the Bostonian establishment since God was a boy, and the head of the household "George" (Ronald Colman) is keen to ensure that with his wife "Catherine" (Edna Best) his son and daughter follow firmly in their establishment footsteps. Thing is, his daughter "Eleanor" (Peggy Cummins) and his son "Richard" (Richard Ney) are rather more independently spirited than that, and their definition of conformity is not quite that of their father! What now ensues is a rather nicely paced comedy that offers us the principle of coming of age - but in this case it's the grown ups who have to come to an age in which their traditions are important, but not all-so. It's based on John Marquand's original, quite satirical, story that casts gentle aspersions on snobbery and elitism, but also acknowledges some of the values those eschewed as a bedrock for a solid and decently evolving society. Colman is on good form in a role I imagined might have suited George Arliss too, and there is the always reliable Mildred Natwick amongst a supporting cast of the sympathetic and not so amongst this family that simply has to adapt to survive. This is an enjoyable ninety minutes of social observation and is well worth a watch.

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