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.
Claudette Colbert
as Mrs. Anne Hilton
Jennifer Jones
as Jane Deborah Hilton
Joseph Cotten
as Lieutenant Tony Willett
Shirley Temple
as Bridget 'Brig' Hilton
Monty Woolley
as Colonel William G. Smollett
Lionel Barrymore
as Clergyman
Robert Walker
as Corporal William G. 'Bill' Smollett II
Hattie McDaniel
as Fidelia
Agnes Moorehead
as Mrs. Emily Hawkins
Alla Nazimova
as Zofia Koslowska
Albert Bassermann
as Dr. Sigmund Gottlieb Golden
Gordon Oliver
as Marine Officer Seeking Room
