The whole town WHISPERED about these two!
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
- 7.4
- 1945
- Released
- 1h 31m
Dorothy McGuire
Laura Pennington
Robert Young
Oliver Bradford
Herbert Marshall
Major John Hillgrove
Mildred Natwick
Mrs. Abigail Minnett
Spring Byington
Violet Price
Hillary Brooke
Beatrice Alexander
Richard Gaines
Frederick 'Freddy' Price
Alec Englander
Danny 'Taxi' Stanton
Robert Clarke
Marine CorporalEden Nicholas
Soldier
Rusty Farrell
Mildred (uncredited)
Released
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- #suicide attempt
- #transformation
- #seclusion
- #enchantment
- #based on play or musical
- #cottage
- #maid
- #kindness
- #new england
- #disfigured face
- #war injury
- #told in flashback
- #canteen
- #fiancée
- #war trauma
- #ugly girl
- #american g.i.
- #blind musician
- #act of kindness
Reviews
You’re driftwood, floating underwater. The Enchanted Cottage is directed by John Cromwell and adapted to the screen by Herman Mankiewicz and DeWItt Bodeen from the play of the same name by Arthur Wing Pinero. It stars Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall and Mildred Natwick. Music is by Roy Webb and cinematography by Ted Tetzlaff. Once a play it had been adapted to the silent scre