How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film directed by John Ford. The film, based on the 1939 Richard Llewellyn novel, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and written by Philip Dunne. The film stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and Roddy McDowall. It was nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning five and beating out for Best Picture such classics as Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, Suspicion and Sergeant York. The film tells the story of the Morgans, a close, hard-working Welsh family at the turn of the twentieth century in the South Wales coalfield at the heart of... the South Wales Valleys. It chronicles a socio-economic way of life passing and the family unit disintegrating. In 1990, How Green Was My Valley was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In the Rhondda Valley in Wales, Huw Morgan is the youngest child of Gwilym and Beth Morgan .
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| Release date: | 1941 |
| Directed by: | John Ford |
| Runtime: | 118 Minutes |
| Producer: | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Editor: | James Beauchamp Clark, James B. Clark |
| Music by: | Alfred Newman |
| Cinematography: | Arthur C. Miller |
| Screenplay by: | Philip Dunne |
| Estimated budget: | $1,250,000 |
| Adapted from: | How Green Was My Valley |
| Genre: | Western |