1942 National Board of Review – Best Actress Winner
49th Parallel
Glynis Johns
A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
In This Our Life
Hattie McDaniel
The day before her wedding, a pampered young woman absconds with her sister’s husband; in retaliation, her sister begins seeing the woman’s former fiancé.
Journey for Margaret
Margaret O’Brien
An American newspaperman and his wife, caught in the London blitz, lose their unborn child in an air raid. Outraged, they visit a shelter for homeless children where they fall in love with …
Kings Row
Ann Sheridan
The dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn-of-the-century.
Moontide
Ida Lupino
After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man. In his uncertainty, he takes a job on an isolated bait barge. That night, he rescues …
Mrs. Miniver
Greer Garson
A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
Mrs. Miniver
Teresa Wright
A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Googie Withers
When Nazi anti-aircraft fire damages a British bomber, its crew bails out and seeks help from the Dutch underground.
Random Harvest
Susan Peters
An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
Roxie Hart
Ginger Rogers
Roxie Hart signs a murder confession in order to attract publicity for her dancing career as dames don’t swing in Cook County. Will everything go as planned?
The Magnificent Ambersons
Agnes Moorehead
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
The Major and the Minor
Diana Lynn
A woman disguises herself as a child to save on a train fare and is taken in charge by an army man who doesn’t notice the truth.
The Moon and Sixpence
Florence Bates
Loosely inspired by Gauguin’s life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-class life, his family, and his duties to start painting, as he has …