Dearest Enemy

Dearest Enemy

77 mins | War, Music, TV Movie | Nov. 26, 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.

Dearest Enemy

77 mins | War, Music, TV Movie | Nov. 26, 1955

Dearest Enemy
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.
Producers NBC Studios
Original title Dearest Enemy
Directors Max Liebman
Writers Lorenz Hart, Neil Simon, Herbert Fields

Cast

Anne Jeffreys

as Betsy Winthrop

Robert Sterling

as John Copeland

Cornelia Otis Skinner

as Mrs. Murray

Cyril Ritchard

as Gen. Howe

Donald Burr

as Cornwallis

Donn Driver

as Courier

Lelia Martin

as Amanda

Wynne Miller

as Clara

Elaine Spaulding

as Adele

Greta Gray

as Florence

Byron Halstead

as Gen. Tryon

Lewis Brooks

as Gen. Clinton

Evan Wright

as American Soldier