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The  film  exceeded  all  expectations, grossing  5,358,000  in North  America (the highest for any MGM film at the time) and 3,520,000 abroad. In Britain, it was named the top box office attraction of 1942. Of the 592 film critics polled by American magazine Film Daily, 555 named it the best film of 1942.

The Times columns were short reflections on everyday life, based in part on Struthers own family and experiences. While the columns started out as lighthearted domestic scenes where the outside world barely intruded, the approach of  World War II slowly brought darker global concerns into Mrs. Minivers world.  There  were  strong  influences  of  the  war  on  the  content  of  this  column  and  shortly  after  the  world  war  II  began  Struther  stopped  his  column. In  1942  the  film  adaptation  of  Mrs. Miniver  was  produced. The film  was  a  huge  success  and  was  nominated  for  twelve  Academy awards  that  year.

This  story  of  an  average  English  middle-class  family  begins  with  the  summer  of  1939 when  the  sun  shone  down  on  a  happy, careless  people, who  worked  and  played, reared  their  children  and  tended  their  gardens  in  that  happy, easy-going  England  that was  so  soon  to  be  fighting  desperately  for  her  way  of life  and  for  life  itself.

Prologue to MRS. MINIVER
The  trials  and  difficulties  faced  by  a  simple  middle  class  family  are  wonderfully  depicted  in  this  movie. One  always  focuses  on  the  war  in war  movies, but  its  refreshing  to  se  a  movie  that  deals  with  the  situations  that  fall upon  a  family  during  war. This  appeals  to  the  standard  audience  who  gave  this  film  their  full  appreciation. One  can  connect  to  the  story  at  a  more  personal  level. The  arrival  of  the  inured  Nazi  soldier, the death  of  the  daughter-in-law  and  such  strong  twists  in  the  storyline  tend  to  take  the  viewer  on  a  rather  thrilling  and  emotional  journey.

All  three  movies  are  made  in  different  years  and  deal  with  the  trial  and  tribulations  faced  by  a  varied  group  of  persons. Each  plot  is  so  different  from  the  other  yet  similar  in  a  way  that  it  is  set  in  the  same  background  of  the  world  war  II, and  what  effects  it  had  on  the  personal  tribulations  of  a  person  affected  by  it.