Dearest Enemy

Name: Dearest Enemy
Genre: Music, War, TV Movie
Released: 26 Nov 1955
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Cast: Anne Jeffreys, Robert Sterling, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Cyril Ritchard, Donald Burr

1955-11-26 United States of America 77 minutes.

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Music War TV Movie musical based on play or musical live broadcast american revolution revolutionary war

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This live TV adaptation of the Broadway musical "Dearest Enemy" from 1925 is based on an American Revolutionary War incident in September 1776 when Mary Lindley Murray, under orders from General George Washington, detained General William Howe and his British troops by serving them cake, wine and conversation in her Kips Bay, Manhattan home long enough for some 4,000 American soldiers, fleeing their loss in the Battle of Brooklyn, to reassemble in Washington Heights and join reinforcements to make a successful counterattack.

Year 1955

Studio NBC Studios

Director Max Liebman

Crew Max Liebman (Director), Herbert Fields (Musical), Neil Simon (Adaptation), Richard Rodgers (Songs), Lorenz Hart (Lyricist), Max Liebman (Producer)

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Language English