Dearest Enemy (1955)
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.
Music, War, TV Movie
Cast
- Anne Jeffreys — Betsy Winthrop
- Robert Sterling — John Copeland
- Cornelia Otis Skinner — Mrs. Murray
- Cyril Ritchard — Gen. Howe
- Donald Burr — Cornwallis
- Don Driver — Courier
- Lelia Martin — Amanda
- Wynne Miller — Clara
- Elaine Spaulding — Adele
- Greta Gray — Florence
- Byron Halstead — Gen. Tryon
- Lewis Brooks — Gen. Clinton
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