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This Above All (1942) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by Robert Bassler and Darryl F. Zanuck.

Academy Awards 1942 --- Ceremony Number 15 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Art DirectionArt Direction: Richard Day, Joseph Wright; Interior Decoration: Thomas LittleWon
Best CinematographyArthur MillerNominated
Best Film EditingWalter ThompsonNominated
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Prudence Cathaway: [to Aunt Iris] When you and Uncle Wilfred talk, I seem to hear words oozing from the holes of a moth eaten sofa.


Prudence Cathaway: [referring to Britain's involvement in the War] It's too late to doubt or question. We're in it now, and we've got to go on!


Clive Briggs: [Listening to the German bombardment] Don't worry. They're not going to waste bombs on a WAAF camp.
Prudence Cathaway: Why not?
Clive Briggs: My girl, don't you realize that a big bomb costs a thousand pounds? We could go around the world on the price of one bomb!


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Appearing in this film are no fewer than twenty performers who appeared in at least one of the Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, including Nigel Bruce who played Ramsbottom.
Clive (né Vivian) James chose his name from this character.
Robert Donat, Laurence Olivier and Richard Greene were also considered for the role of Clive Briggs.
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