A renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer who is presented with a Congressional Gold Medal.
An amnesiac World War I veteran who falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
A widely beloved sports figure whose career and life are cut short by disease.
A successful architect living in rural England with his family, who volunteers to assist in the Dunkirk evacuation.
An Englishman on vacation who is caught up in the German invasion of France, and finds himself taking an ever-growing group of children to safety.
An unassuming British housewife in rural England whose life is touched by World War II.
A plain spinster who has been emotionally abused by her tyrannical mother for decades, who blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.
An international affairs correspondent who marries a sportswriter, and encounters marital problems as a result of her unflinching commitment to her work.
A reporter who loses her job over a failed attempted to boost the career of her sister, an aspiring actress, and moves from Ohio to New York with her.
The wife of a widely beloved sports figure whose career and life are cut short by disease.
The intellectual, alcoholic confidant of the ruthless head of a powerful gambling syndicate.
A bickering, troublemaking soldier on a Hawaiian atoll that, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, is attacked by the Japanese navy.
The warm an wise father of a renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer.
An old man who loves his dogs, and saves money for some mysterious reason.
A stationmaster in World War II England who enters a beautiful rose he grew and named after a woman he is friends with in a flower contest.
An altruistic young woman in World War II England who marries an idealistic Oxford student.
The tyrannical and emotionally abusive mother of a plain spinster.
The spinster aunt of a neo-aristocratic family in decline, who holds a torch for a bright young engineer who is in love with her sister.
A young woman who is engaged to an amnesiac, but realizes there is a vague memory of loving somebody else in him.
An elitist Lady who is not too pleased with her young granddaughter's engagement to an idealistic Oxford student.
