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Dearest Enemy (1955) | Slate

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Rated 10.0 on TMDB

Dearest Enemy

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.

Released: 1955
Runtime: 1h 17m
Genres: Music, War, TV Movie
Country: United States of America
Language: English

Direction and writing

Neil SimonAdaptation

Max LiebmanDirector

Cast

Anne JeffreysBetsy Winthrop
Robert SterlingJohn Copeland
Cornelia Otis SkinnerMrs. Murray

HF

Herbert FieldsMusical

Lorenz HartLyricist

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Cyril RitchardGen. Howe

Donald BurrCornwallis

Don DriverCourier

Lelia MartinAmanda

Wynne MillerClara

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