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The Hiltons are a well-to-do family living somewhere in FlyoverCountry. Patriarch Tim Hilton has just left for service in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII when the movie starts, leaving his wife Anne (Claudette Colbert) and their daughters Jane (Jennifer Jones) and Brig (16-year-old Creator/ShirleyTemple) to cope with life on the home front while Tim is away. Forced to save money after losing Tim's civilian salary, the Hiltons take in a boarder, Col. Smollett, whose grandson Bill (Robert Walker) falls for Jane.

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The Hiltons are a well-to-do family living somewhere in FlyoverCountry. Patriarch Tim Hilton has just left for service in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII when the movie starts, leaving his wife Anne (Claudette Colbert) and their daughters Jane (Jennifer Jones) and Brig (16-year-old Creator/ShirleyTemple) to cope with life on the home front while Tim is away. Forced to save money after losing Tim's civilian salary, the Hiltons take in a boarder, Col. Smollett, Smollett (Monty Woolley), whose grandson Bill (Robert Walker) falls for Jane.
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'''''since You Went Away''''' is a black-and-white drama film from 1944, directed by John Cromwell.

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'''''since '''''Since You Went Away''''' is a black-and-white drama film from 1944, directed by John Cromwell.
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''Since You Went Away'' is a black and white film from 1944, directed by John Cromwell.

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''Since '''''since You Went Away'' Away''''' is a black and white black-and-white drama film from 1944, directed by John Cromwell.

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* HaveAGayOldTime; "Do you know of any place here in this gay metropolis where I can conquer my two passions at the same time?"

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"Do you know of any place here in this gay metropolis where I can conquer my two passions at the same time?"time?"
** "This powderbox is not too gay."
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* TheVoiceless: Brig's very shy friend Gladys, who pops up from time to time to signal Brig with a "Pssst!" but never talks. Fiinally at the end she manages to gasp out a "Merry Christmas."

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* {{Melodrama}}

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* {{Melodrama}}{{Melodrama}}: Much tragedy, heightened emotions, and crying to be had.
* ParlorGames: The Hiltons play Charades from time to time. The super-dignified Col. Smollett has to act out "bottoms up".
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* TrainStationGoodbye: The TropeMaker, as Jane sees Bill off when he's going away to war. There are declarations of love, there's Jane running after the moving train, there's BIll handing her a keepsake (his watch) from the moving window.

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* TrainStationGoodbye: The TropeMaker, as Jane sees Bill off when he's going away to war. There are declarations of love, there's Jane running after the moving train, there's BIll handing her a keepsake (his watch) from the moving window.window.
* WrenchWench: Anne eventually goes to work as a welder.

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* ComingOfAgeStory: One of the main plot elements is Jane growing from immature teenaged girl to a grown woman.



* DeathNotification: Sort of. Anne receives the standard telegram, but it says that Tim is missing in action.

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* DeathNotification: Sort of. Anne receives the standard telegram, but it says that Tim is missing in action. The later telegram informing the family that Bill was killed in Italy arrives offscreen, with Anne telling Jane after Jane comes home.

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[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Since_You_Went_Away Details are here, for now.]]



* AltarTheSpeed: Lampshaded and then averted.

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* AltarTheSpeed: Lampshaded and then averted. Jane and Bill discuss getting married right away just before the TrainStationGoodbye, but decide against it.
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* TrainStationGoodbye: The TropeMaker.

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* TrainStationGoodbye: The TropeMaker.TropeMaker, as Jane sees Bill off when he's going away to war. There are declarations of love, there's Jane running after the moving train, there's BIll handing her a keepsake (his watch) from the moving window.

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Also stars Joseph Cotten as Navy Lt. Tony Willett, an old friend of the Hilton family, and Creator/LionelBarrymore as a clergyman. Produced by David O. Selznick for Creator/UnitedArtists. Nominated for a large passel of Oscars, and won some of the minor ones.

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Also stars Joseph Cotten as Navy Lt. Tony Willett, an old friend of the Hilton family, and Creator/LionelBarrymore as family who obviously carries a clergyman. torch for Anne. Produced by David O. Selznick for Creator/UnitedArtists. Nominated for a large passel of Oscars, and won some of the minor ones.


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* TheCameo: Creator/LionelBarrymore has one short scene as a clergyman.


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* ThunderEqualsDownpour: Jane and Bill are having an ideal afternoon on a farm when the sound of thunder comes out of nowhere. Boom, before they can even make it to the barn, it's pouring rain.
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* {{Intermission}}: The "Entr'acte" comes slightly more than halfway through this three-hour film, after the Hiltons receive the MIA telegram.
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* DeathNotification: Sort of. Anne receives the standard telegram, but it says that Tim is missing in action.
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* FatalFamilyPhoto: Mr. Mahoney the grocer shows Anne a picture of his son, who's in the army. Not long after, his son is killed in a training accident.
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* GrumpyOldMan: Col. Smollett is cranky and cantankerous, complaining about his eggs and the dog and the peculiarities of the Hilton household.
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* DeathByChildbirth: The fate of Bill's mother, as he explains to Jane.
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The Hiltons are a well-to-do family living somewhere in FlyoverCountry. Patriarch Tim Hilton has just left for service in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII when the movie starts, leaving his wife Anne (Claudette Colbert) and their daughters Jane (Jennifer Jones) and Brig (16-year-old Creator/ShirleyTemple) to cope with life on the home front while Tim is away. Forced to save money after losing Tim's civilian salary, the Hiltons take in a boarder, Col. Smollett, whose son Bill (Robert Walker) falls for Jane.

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The Hiltons are a well-to-do family living somewhere in FlyoverCountry. Patriarch Tim Hilton has just left for service in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII when the movie starts, leaving his wife Anne (Claudette Colbert) and their daughters Jane (Jennifer Jones) and Brig (16-year-old Creator/ShirleyTemple) to cope with life on the home front while Tim is away. Forced to save money after losing Tim's civilian salary, the Hiltons take in a boarder, Col. Smollett, whose son grandson Bill (Robert Walker) falls for Jane.
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* DancesAndBalls: The town puts on a dance for the soldiers at the local Army base, complete with girls brought in to dance with the soldiers.

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Also stars Joseph Cotten as Navy Lt. Tony Willett and Creator/LionelBarrymore as a clergyman. Produced by David O. Selznick for Creator/UnitedArtists. Nominated for a large passel of Oscars, and won some of the minor ones.

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Also stars Joseph Cotten as Navy Lt. Tony Willett Willett, an old friend of the Hilton family, and Creator/LionelBarrymore as a clergyman. Produced by David O. Selznick for Creator/UnitedArtists. Nominated for a large passel of Oscars, and won some of the minor ones.


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* HaveAGayOldTime; "Do you know of any place here in this gay metropolis where I can conquer my two passions at the same time?"
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* HypocritiicalHumor: "This whole moral breakdown is caused by drinking and nothing else. They sure serve rotten Scotch at this bar."

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* HypocritiicalHumor: HypocriticalHumor: "This whole moral breakdown is caused by drinking and nothing else. They sure serve rotten Scotch at this bar."
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* HypocritiicalHumor: "This whole moral breakdown is caused by drinking and nothing else. They sure serve rotten Scotch at this bar."
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Also stars Joseph Cotten as Navy Lt. Tony Willett. Produced by David O. Selznick for Creator/UnitedArtists. Nominated for a large passel of Oscars, and won some of the minor ones.

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Also stars Joseph Cotten as Navy Lt. Tony Willett.Willett and Creator/LionelBarrymore as a clergyman. Produced by David O. Selznick for Creator/UnitedArtists. Nominated for a large passel of Oscars, and won some of the minor ones.
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The Hiltons are a well-to-do family living somewhere in FlyoverCountry. Patriarch Tim Hilton has just left for service in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII when the movie starts, leaving his wife Anne (Claudette Colbert) and their daughters Jane (Jennifer Jones) and Brig (16-year-old Creator/ShirleyTemple) to cope with life on the home front while Tim is away. Forced to save money after losing Tim's civilian salary, the Hiltons take in a boarder, Col. Smollett, whose son Bill falls for Jane.

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The Hiltons are a well-to-do family living somewhere in FlyoverCountry. Patriarch Tim Hilton has just left for service in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII when the movie starts, leaving his wife Anne (Claudette Colbert) and their daughters Jane (Jennifer Jones) and Brig (16-year-old Creator/ShirleyTemple) to cope with life on the home front while Tim is away. Forced to save money after losing Tim's civilian salary, the Hiltons take in a boarder, Col. Smollett, whose son Bill (Robert Walker) falls for Jane.



* SleepngSingle: Amusingly still done in a movie where one half of the married couple is absent. In one scene Anne jumps from her bed into Tim's and breaks down weeping.

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* SleepngSingle: SleepingSingle: Amusingly still done in a movie where one half of the married couple is absent. In one scene Anne jumps from her bed into Tim's and breaks down weeping.
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* SleepngSingle: Amusingly still done in a movie where one half of the married couple is absent. In one scene Anne jumps from her bed into Tim's and breaks down weeping.

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A black and white film from 1944 about a woman and her family coping on the home front when her husband is serving in WWII. Cast included a grown up Creator/ShirleyTemple.

Produced by David O. Selznik for Creator/UnitedArtists. Nominated for a large passel of Oscars, and won some of the minor ones.

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A ''Since You Went Away'' is a black and white film from 1944 about 1944, directed by John Cromwell.

The Hiltons are
a woman and her well-to-do family coping living somewhere in FlyoverCountry. Patriarch Tim Hilton has just left for service in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII when the movie starts, leaving his wife Anne (Claudette Colbert) and their daughters Jane (Jennifer Jones) and Brig (16-year-old Creator/ShirleyTemple) to cope with life on the home front when her husband while Tim is serving away. Forced to save money after losing Tim's civilian salary, the Hiltons take in WWII. Cast included a grown up Creator/ShirleyTemple.

boarder, Col. Smollett, whose son Bill falls for Jane.

Also stars Joseph Cotten as Navy Lt. Tony Willett.
Produced by David O. Selznik Selznick for Creator/UnitedArtists. Nominated for a large passel of Oscars, and won some of the minor ones.


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* TheGhost: Tim never appears onscreen but his presence looms throughout the movie, via many refrences to him as well as several pictures of him in the Hilton residence.
* {{Mammy}}: Hattie [=McDaniel=] plays--wait for it--a sassy black maid.

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A black and white film from 1944 about a woman and her family coping on the home front when her husband is serving in WWII. Cast included a grown up Creator/ShirleyTemple

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A black and white film from 1944 about a woman and her family coping on the home front when her husband is serving in WWII. Cast included a grown up Creator/ShirleyTemple
Creator/ShirleyTemple.




* AltarTheSpeed: Lampshaded and then averted.



* AltarTheSpeed: Lampshaded and then averted.
* TrainStationGoodbye: The TropeMaker.

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* AltarTheSpeed: Lampshaded and then averted.
* TrainStationGoodbye: The TropeMaker.
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A black and white film from 1944 about a woman and her family coping on the home front when her husband is serving in WWII. Cast included a grown up ShirleyTemple

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A black and white film from 1944 about a woman and her family coping on the home front when her husband is serving in WWII. Cast included a grown up ShirleyTemple
Creator/ShirleyTemple
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* StarCrossedLovers: In an ironic twist, they are played by a actor/actress couple in the middle of a divorce, because the actress is having an affair with the director.

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* StarCrossedLovers: In an ironic twist, they are played by a an actor/actress couple in the middle of a divorce, because the actress is having an affair with the director.screenwriter/producer.
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* AnyoneCanDie (well, not ''anybody'', but anybody who's left for the war)

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* AnyoneCanDie (well, AnyoneCanDie: Well, not ''anybody'', but anybody who's left for the war)war.



* StarCrossedLovers (In an ironic twist, they are played by a actor/actress couple in the middle of a divorce, because the actress is having an affair with the director.)
* AltarTheSpeed, Lampshaded and then averted.

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* StarCrossedLovers (In StarCrossedLovers: In an ironic twist, they are played by a actor/actress couple in the middle of a divorce, because the actress is having an affair with the director.)
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* AltarTheSpeed, AltarTheSpeed: Lampshaded and then averted.
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Produced by David O. Selznik for UnitedArtists. Nominated for a large passel of Oscars, and won some of the minor ones.

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Produced by David O. Selznik for UnitedArtists.Creator/UnitedArtists. Nominated for a large passel of Oscars, and won some of the minor ones.

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