Since You Went Away

A love story of today's love and laughter

In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.

Drama Romance War

Claudette Colbert

(Mrs. Anne Hilton)

Jennifer Jones

(Jane Deborah Hilton)

Joseph Cotten

(Lieutenant Tony Willett)

Shirley Temple

(Bridget 'Brig' Hilton)

Monty Woolley

(Colonel William G. Smollett)

Lionel Barrymore

Robert Walker

(Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II)

Hattie McDaniel

Agnes Moorehead

(Mrs. Emily Hawkins)

Alla Nazimova

(Zofia Koslowska)

Albert Bassermann

(Dr. Sigmund Gottlieb Golden)

Gordon Oliver

(Marine Officer Seeking Room)

Keenan Wynn

(Lieutenant Solomon)

Guy Madison

(Sailor Harold E. Smith)

Craig Stevens

(Danny Williams)

Lloyd Corrigan

(Mr. Mahoney - Grocer)

Jackie Moran

(Johnny Mahoney)

Dorothy Adams

(Nurse (uncredited))

Irving Bacon

(Bartender at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited))

Conrad Binyon

(Page Boy (uncredited))

Dorothy Dandridge

(Black Officer's Wife in Train Station (uncredited))

John Derek

(Minor Role (uncredited))

Jimmie Dodd

(Train Passenger (uncredited))

Rhonda Fleming

(Girl at Dance (uncredited))

Ann Gillis

(Becky Anderson - Class President (uncredited))

Eddie Hall

(Eager Sailor (uncredited))

Warren Hymer

(Convalescent Wishing for Tutti Frutti (uncredited))

Edwin Maxwell

(Businessman in Cocktail Lounge (uncredited))

Andrew V. McLaglen

(Former Plowboy (uncredited))

Terry Moore

(Refugee Child on Train (uncredited))

Aileen Pringle

(Woman at Cocktail Lounge (uncredited))

Ruth Roman

(Envious Girl in Train Station (uncredited))

Grady Sutton

(Soldier Hunting for Susie Fleming (uncredited))

Theodore von Eltz

(Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited))

Doodles Weaver

(Convalescent Wishing for Watermelon (uncredited))

Butterfly McQueen

(WAC Sergeant (uncredited))